NASA's Perseverance rover is on course to plunge into the atmosphere of Mars on Thursday for a nail-biting descent onto the surface of the red planet. Its landing zone is the floor of a 28-mile-wide ...

A NASA animation shows water breaking into Mars' Jezero Crater, a region that could have potentially supported life. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA is exploring one of the most intriguing spots on ...

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New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity—each with conditions that could have supported life.

The Jezero Crater on Mars was named after the earthly village of Jezero, Bosnia. When NASA successfully touched down its Perseverance rover Thursday at the Jezero Crater on Mars, cheers erupted at the ...

Jezero Crater once could have been a prime location for martian microbial mats. And Perseverance aims to find out if any Martian fossils were left behind. Billions of years ago, an enormous space rock ...

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