{"id":102165,"date":"2024-07-26T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/nasas-perseverance-finds-its-first-possible-hint-of-ancient-mars-life\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:32:11","slug":"nasas-perseverance-finds-its-first-possible-hint-of-ancient-mars-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/nasas-perseverance-finds-its-first-possible-hint-of-ancient-mars-life\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s Perseverance finds its first possible hint of ancient Mars life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has bagged its first hint of ancient microbes on Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not able to say that this is a sign of life,\u201d says Perseverance deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif.\u00a0 \u201cBut this is the most compelling sample we\u2019ve found yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rover drilled up the sample on July 21 from a reddish rock, dubbed Cheyava Falls after a feature at the Grand Canyon. It is the first piece of Mars that Perseverance has examined that contains organic molecules, the building blocks of life, project scientist Ken Farley of Caltech reported July 25 at the 10th International Conference on Mars<\/a> in Pasadena.<\/p>\n\n\n