
Perseverance Perseveres: A Mars rover update from Ken Farley
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Are You as Blown Away by the Maskam Z as We Are on Mars?
The images that the t im is producing ar really spectacular. And we have very detailed orbital images that led us to believe a number of things about this land sit and then when you get on down on the ground, some of those hypotheses are confirmed, and others are refuted. For example, these rocks in the crater floor, they are igneous, but they have also interacted with water, maybe ground water. Isn't really clear wit what the source of the water was. But those rocks were sitting in water some significant amount of time. And that's really interesting from the point of view of looking for potentially habitable environments where each martian micro organisms might have been able to live.
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