NASA Rover Detects Potential Signatures of Ancient Microbial Life On Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover’s Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, “a dried-up river that carried water into the planet’s Jezero crater billions of years ago,” notes The Guardian. From the report: The form of carbon detected, known as macromolecular carbon or MMC, can originate from living organisms.