Jezero crater, the destination of the Perseverance rover, is a promising place to look for evidence of extinct Martian life. An image obtained by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015 of the ...

Mars’ Jezero Crater just got a lot more interesting! Perseverance has revealed unexpected geological and chemical evidence hinting at ancient water activity and potential microbial life. Explore ...

These days, the Jezero crater on Mars is an arid, barren depression. But it was a very different place billions of years ago, images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover have revealed.

This map of Mars shows Jezero Crater, where the Perseverance rover is scheduled to land, as well as the locations where all of NASA's other successful Mars missions touched down.

In early 2022, NASA’s Perseverance rover began its most exciting chapter - exploring an ancient Martian river delta in Jezero Crater. These sediment layers may hold evidence of past life. The ...

But NASA determined Jezero was a good location to show how water periodically appeared and then disappeared on the Martian surface. Scientists believe Mars lost its water because the atmosphere ...

The Jezero crater on Mars, where NASA's Perseverance is currently exploring, is vast at nearly 30 miles across and was likely created by a huge asteroid impact.

Jezero Crater is located in the so-called Isidis Planitia region, just north of the equator in the eastern hemisphere of Mars. This flat plain is located inside a giant 750-mile-wide (1,200 ...

A selfie of the Perseverance Mars rover NASA's Perseverance rover has taken some of the most detailed measurements ever of Mars rocks, yielding insights into the lake that once filled Jezero crater.

The video, created using computer simulations from data collected by ESA’s Mars Express and NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, begins in orbit and shows a soothing swoop down to Jezero’s ...

Perseverance is in Mars’s Jezero Crater, a site NASA chose for the rover’s landing thanks to its wide expanses, free of obstacles, and the presence of a dried-up river delta from 3.5 billion ...