A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken
NASA tends to drip feed this sort of stuff, because every time they release a paper talking about how there is a .5% chance that life might exist on Mars based on new data, the news media is all “OMG LIFE FOUND ON MARS?! ALIENS CONFIRMED>!?!” and then when the scientists clarify that they aren’t saying that, the public gets mad at them and not the sensationalist media lying about it.
I feel like they archived this to distract actual news
Breaking: There may be life out there! (Which is really not fundamentally different a position than anything already known)
NASA tends to drip feed this sort of stuff, because every time they release a paper talking about how there is a .5% chance that life might exist on Mars based on new data, the news media is all “OMG LIFE FOUND ON MARS?! ALIENS CONFIRMED>!?!” and then when the scientists clarify that they aren’t saying that, the public gets mad at them and not the sensationalist media lying about it.