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Perseverance Rover Studies Rock That Could Help Answer Past Mars Life Question
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07/06/2025
A rock sample collected by the Mars Perseverance rover could help answer the question of "whether Mars was home to microscopic life," according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Our first reaction on the team when we saw this rock was like, whoa, what is that?
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What could have caused that?
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Sample 25 is called Sapphire Canyon.
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This is a core that was collected from the Cheyava Falls Rock in Nuretva Valis.
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The Cheyava Falls Rock is really neat.
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If you look at it, it's got all sorts of cool features.
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It has these small black spots that we call poppy seeds and also these larger spots that
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we call leopard spots.
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This is the only place we've found on Mars so far where we have chemical evidence that
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chemical reactions associated with life could have been happening, as well as organic molecules.
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The Sherlock instrument detected an organic signature, so both of those together in the
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same rock is really compelling because these similar types of features, when we find them
00:51
on Earth, oftentimes they're associated with biology, with microbes, and so those pieces
00:56
of evidence combined together, we believe justify calling it a potential biosignature.
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I would describe the Sapphire Canyon sample as mysterious because we see these signatures
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that tell us chemistry has happened, potentially involving organics, but what does that mean?
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Could life have been involved or something that didn't involve life at all?
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We're not going to know until we bring that sample back and do some more measurements.
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It will tell us how common things are, they don't require various algorithms and�� esimerk tapes.
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