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NASA's Mars Rover Begins Search for Signs of Ancient Life

May 13, 2021 Share The U.S. space agency, NASA, said in a news release this week that its Perseverance Mars rover was focusing on its primary mission of looking for signs of ancient life in the dried lakebed surrounding it. The rover has spent much of the past month serving as a communications base and documenting the historic flights of the Ingenuity helicopter. But it has also been focusing its instruments on the rocks in the Jezero Crater, an area scientists believe was once flooded with water and was home to an ancient river delta. The area was carefully chosen as the rover’s la...

Amity University Mumbai offers opportunities for Astrobiology students in India ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 16:20 IST Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 13 (ANI/PRNewswire): In keeping with the growing penchant for Astrobiology, Amity has established India's first-ever Centre of Excellence in Astrobiology at Amity University Maharashtra. Together with its national and international partners, the researchers at the Amity Centre are developing space experiments, conducting field studies in Mars-like regions of India, and enabling students from various scienc...

autoevolution 12 May 2021, 7:38 UTC · by While NASA's Ingenuity helicopter seems to be in the spotlight these days, it's important to remember that Perseverance isn't there only to take pictures and document its little buddy's historic flights. The rover has also been hard at work with focusing its science instruments on exploring an ancient crater that once held a lake on Mars. 1 photo On the end of Perseverance's robotic arm is a color camera attached called WATSON, with which the rover has taken detailed pictures of the rocks that lay on the floor of the Jezero Crater. With the Mast...

NASA's Perseverance rover is studying rocks in the Jezero crater to look for life The SUV-sized vehicle has a number of cameras and scientific instruments Among them is a camera with a laser that can be used to 'blast' different rocks Once blasted the camera can then study the chemistry of the dust from the rock The rover began its mission to search for signs of ancient life after it finished in its role as photographer and data relay for the Ingenuity helicopter mission