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A month on Mars: what NASA’s Perseverance rover has found so far – Nature.com
No signs of past life yet, but rocks at its landing site show signs of being shaped by wind and water.
Perseverance took its first drive on Martian soil on 4 March.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASAs Perseverance rover has had a busy first month on Marss surface. From Jezero Crater, where Perseverance landed on 18 February, it has been doing as much geology as it can snapping pictures of its surroundings and analyzing the rocks nearby. Already, team scientists have determined that several of the rocks are chemically similar to volcanic rocks on Earth, and that wind and water have eroded some of them.
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