NATIONWIDE — NASA announced on Wednesday that its Perseverance Mars rover may have found signs of ancient microbial life on the red planet.
During a teleconference on Wednesday morning, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy shared that NASA might have discovered signs of microbial life on the Red Planet.
“A year ago, we thought we found what we believed to be signs of microbial life on the Mars’ surface,” Duffy shared.
After a year, NASA released a scientific paper that stated this sample could be the clearest signs of life on ancient Mars, Duffy said.
The sample was discovered in an ancient dry riverbed in the Jezero Crater that was taken from a rock named Cheyava Falls.
“Taken from a rock named ‘Cheyava Falls’ last year, the sample, called ‘Sapphire Canyon,’ contains potential biosig