So, why Jezero Crater (below)? Well, the geology of the 28-mile-wide crater plays the most important role in why we all hope that Perseverance will land successfully in a few days. Most strikingly, ...
Jezero Crater once could have been a prime location for martian microbial mats. And Perseverance aims to find out if any Martian fossils were left behind. Billions of years ago, an enormous space rock ...
Billions of years ago, an enormous space rock struck Mars and excavated a 750-mile-wide (1,200 kilometers) crater now called the Isidis impact basin. But the cosmos wasn’t done yet. Another smaller ...
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