Alexis Guillaux (in New York), edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez 07:24, November 25, 2022

The Perseverance robot continues to survey the surface of Mars to discover traces of life there.

And now, the evidence of the presence of water on the red planet is accumulating.

Almost all the Mars samples from the rover would contain organic compounds, molecules favorable to life.

On the Red Planet, evidence of life seems to be piling up.

The Perseverance robot collected several samples on the surface of Mars, which were immediately analyzed by the researchers.

According to several scientific publications, the recovered rocks confirm that there was indeed water on Mars.

So many clues that feed the hypothesis of proof of life on this neighboring planet.

Molecules favorable to life, organic compounds, would be contained in almost all the Martian samples recovered by Perseverance.

This is volcanic rock which shows that lava has encountered water several times.

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A rich aquatic past

It has now been a year and a half that the NASA robot has been traveling around this crater called Jezero in search of signs of life.

Thanks to his work and from one of the studies, it is now known that the rocks in this crater experienced three separate events in which they were exposed to water.

A boon for scientists, because the richer the aquatic past of Mars, the higher the chances of finding traces of organic life.

Several million years are needed to see the emergence of complex life forms, so we will have to be patient before having more in-depth analyses.

NASA and the European Space Agency must send another spacecraft to Mars to recover these samples, which are therefore expected on Earth in the early 2030s, after an interminable return trip of at least seven months.