CBS: Is there any sign of life on Mars? What new clues have the US Perseverance rover found?

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected and stored rock samples composed of minerals and organic compounds that may remain on Earth, researchers said Thursday. Traces of past microbial life. Soil samples were collected at the base of an ancient river delta that fanned out from the edge of Jezero crater.

Two areas at the bottom of an ancient delta within Mars' Jezero Crater

CBS CBS reports, but to find out if any such "potential biosignatures" include actual traces of past life on Mars, , Scientists will have to wait for a NASA- ESA mission at the end of the century to collect them and bring them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Laboratory analysis.

"The samples we're showing here today...have the elements of life in terms of the environmental environment," said UC Perseverance sample return scientist David Schuster.