NASA's Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life
"On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface."
Where there was water...? Right?
I don't think about this little bot very often, but I did want to dig up bits on how it could test for these compounds. I thought perhaps it was programmed to dig up samples, burn them, and then identify them by how they processed (which I literally only thought of due to that Numa gluten meter I know absolutely nothing about chemistry). But I found the starts of what allows it to analyze things (I say the start because even this page is pretty thin). But it looks like it's through a variety of powerful cameras. At least for the mineral based stuff.