{"id":186791,"date":"2024-04-04T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/perseverance-rovers-24th-sample-unveils-clues-to-martian-history"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:27:44","slug":"perseverance-rovers-24th-sample-unveils-clues-to-martian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/perseverance-rovers-24th-sample-unveils-clues-to-martian-history","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance Rover\u2019s 24th Sample Unveils Clues to Martian History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perseverance-rovers-24th-sample-unveils-clues-to-martian-history2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did Mars once contain life, or even the building block for life? This is what NASA\u2019s Perseverance (Percy) rover has been trying to determine ever since it landed in Jezero Crater, which has shown an overwhelming amount of evidence to have once been site to a massive lakebed. Now, NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/rock-sampled-by-nasas-perseverance-embodies-why-rover-came-to-mars\">recently announced<\/a> that Percy has collected its 24th rock sample on March 11th, nicknamed \u201cComet Geyser\u201d, with this sample being <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mars-rock-samples\/#24\">unlike the first 23<\/a> in that evidence suggests it was submerged in standing water for an indeterminant amount of time when Mars had liquid water billions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mosaic image of the drill holes where NASA\u2019s Perseverance Mars rover extracted the \u201cComet Geyser\u201d rock sample. (Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU\/MSSS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo put it simply, this is the kind of rock we had hoped to find when we decided to investigate Jezero Crater,\u201d said Dr. Ken Farley, who is a project scientist for Perseverance and a professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. \u201cNearly all the minerals in the rock we just sampled were made in water; on Earth, water-deposited minerals are often good at trapping and preserving ancient organic material and biosignatures. The rock can even tell us about Mars climate conditions that were present when it was formed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Mars once contain life, or even the building block for life? This is what NASA\u2019s Perseverance (Percy) rover has been trying to determine ever since it landed in Jezero Crater, which has shown an overwhelming amount of evidence to have once been site to a massive lakebed. Now, NASA recently announced that Percy has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}