NASA Reveals NEW MAJOR DISCOVERY On Mars!

NASA Reveals NEW MAJOR DISCOVERY On Mars!

NASA's Perseverance rover is on the hunt for the "goldilocks" of rocks to sample on Mars and one of the key goals of Perseverance's mission is to collect rock samples that will be returned to Earth in a future mission and studied for possible signs of ancient life — but finding the right rock is not always easy.
The rover is currently exploring a well-preserved delta located on the western side of Jezero crater on Mars. Scientists believe that, if life ever existed on the Red Planet, this area could harbor ancient biomarkers, or "molecular fossils," of organic molecules created by living organisms billions of years ago, according to a statement from NASA.
So, what has perseverance found about these suspicious rock samples? Let’s find out!
Hello everyone! Welcome to Space World. In today’s video we are going to talk about a major discovery made by perseverance rover on mars. So, if you want to know more about it then stay with us until the end of the video.
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life on Mars.
Perseverance is currently investigating the sedimentary rocks, formed when particles of various sizes settled in the once-watery environment. During its first science campaign, the rover explored the crater’s floor, finding igneous rock, which forms deep underground from magma or during volcanic activity at the surface.
So, Scientists got a surprise when NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring of 2021: Because the crater held a lake billions of years ago, they had expected to find sedimentary rock, which would have formed when sand and mud settled in a once-watery environment. Instead, they discovered the floor was made of two types of igneous rock – one that formed deep underground from magma, the other from volcanic activity at the surface.
The findings are described in four new papers published Thursday, Aug. 25. In Science, one offers an overview of Perseverance’s exploration of the crater floor before it arrived at Jezero’s ancient river delta in April 2022; a second study in the same journal details distinctive rocks that appear to have formed from a thick body of magma. The other two papers, published in Science Advances, detail the unique ways that Perseverance’s rock-vaporizing laser and ground-penetrating radar established that igneous rocks cover the crater floor.
Now, what is so important about the discovery of these rocks?
According to scientists, Igneous rocks are excellent timekeepers as Crystals within them record details about the precise moment they formed.
“One great value of the igneous rocks we collected is that they will tell us about when the lake was present in Jezero. We know it was there more recently than the igneous crater floor rocks formed,” said Ken Farley of Caltech, Perseverance’s project scientist and the lead author of the first of the new Science papers.
⚠️ Copyright Disclaimers
• We use images and content in accordance with the YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines
• Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”
• This video could contain certain copyrighted video clips, pictures, or photographs that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyright holder(s), but which we believe in good faith are protected by federal law and the fair use doctrine for one or more of the reasons noted above.
🔔 Subscribe now with all notifications on for more Space World content.

Видео NASA Reveals NEW MAJOR DISCOVERY On Mars! канала Space World