Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day. Credit: ...
The car-sized Perseverance landed on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) JezeroCrater in February 2021 to hunt for signs of past Mars life and collect dozens of samples for future ...
Although Perseverance has a collection of instruments to analyze samples on Mars, getting those tubes back to Earth would allow much more detailed examination. The mission to return the samples has ...