In 2021, the Mars Perseverance Rover landed on top of lake deposits in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Jezero is a meteorite impact crater believed to have once been flooded with water and home to an ancient ...

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Studying lake deposits could give scientists insight into ancient traces of life on Mars Northern Idaho’s Clarkia Middle Miocene Fossil Site containts sediments that preserve some of Earth’s ...

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While NASA rovers on the surface of Mars look for hints of life, researchers back on Earth are studying ‘echoes of life’ from ancient basins – hoping that the two sites might be similar.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Patalano, Bryant University (THE CONVERSATION) Does life exist elsewhere in ...