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NASA’S PERSEVERANCE ROVER OPENS A WINDOW TO MARS’ WATERY PAST

NASA’s newest rover has roamed multiple miles around the Red Planet’s Jezero crater, searching N for signs of ancient life and hints about Mars’ past. The rover, part of NASA’s ambitious Mars 2020 mission, has been collecting a huge amount of information about the Martian surface and its rocks. The team behind the Perseverance rover has published three new research papers detailing their findings so far. The data reveals a “story of fire and water”

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