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This is where NASA wants to send its new rover

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NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance landed in the Jezero crater last week after a months-long journey to the Red Planet. The rover has a long life ahead of it on Mars, and NASA scientists want to make sure they look in the most promising places for signs of past life on the planet.
Now that NASA’s Mars rover is safely on the surface of the planet, the real business is set to begin shortly. The rover, like those before it, should expect a long and exciting life on the Red Planet, but if NASA wants it to achieve its lofty goal of detecting the faint signatures of past life on Mars (if it existed), it’s going to have to explore the right areas. One such area is a large, dried-up river delta that flows in the Jezero crater where the rover is located, and NASA just showed off a stunning image of it. NASA wants the Perseverance rover to study the surface of the planet, but beyond that, it would love for the high-powered robot to detect something that suggests life once existed there.

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