One small step for man, one giant step to discovering Martiankind.

After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest evidence yet of Martian life, per a groundbreaking study published in the journal “Nature” on Wednesday.

“The thing I find most exciting about this sample is that it contains features large enough to be seen with the naked eye that could be examined to test for past life,” said Michael Tice, a study co-author and Mars 2020 science team member, per the Washington Post. “That’s surprisingly rare when you are studying evidence for ancient microscopic life.”

The rover discovered the “building rocks” while roaming the inside of Neretva Vallis, an ancient river valley on the Red Planet. Billions of years

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