Kyle Uckert

New Capabilities

Operating SHERLOC aboard Perseverance

NASA's Perseverance rover has confirmed organic carbon in two mudstone rocks in Jezero Crater, the clearest evidence yet that the raw material for life was present on ancient Mars. The carbon sits a few microns below the surface, shallower than the thickness of a sheet of paper and the shallowest such detection ever made there.

Updated 1 hour ago