PIA24172-AncientJezeroCrater-Illustration.jpg

Summary

Description	English: PIA24172: Ancient Jezero Crater (Illustration) https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24172 This illustration shows Jezero Crater — the landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover — as it may have looked billions of years go on Mars, when it was a lake. An inlet and outlet are also visible on either side of the lake. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent missions, currently under consideration by NASA in cooperation with the European Space Agency, would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
Date	20 October 2020
Source	https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA24172.jpg
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech

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