Watch incredible footage of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021. This landing began a mission to explore the Red Planet that still continues today. | NOVA l PBS

The surface of Mars is dry and cold today, but scientific evidence shows that it once had liquid water. Because water is essential for life, scientists study Martian rocks and soil to search for signs of ancient microbial life. So far, no confirmed evidence of life has been found, but research continues. #space #spacex #nasa | Space Journey

👉High-resolution images of Mars’ largest canyon have uncovered ancient river deltas, offering strong evidence that the Red Planet once hosted a vast ocean comparable in size to Earth’s Arctic. New data from the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter provides some of the clearest proof yet that Mars was once rich in water. Scientists from the University of Bern discovered fan-shaped sediment formations in southeast Coprates Chasma, a section of the enormous Valles Marineris canyon sys