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NASA's Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater, where it sampled the Bright Angel rocks. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Perseverance Finds Complex Organic Carbon in Martian Mudstone

The rover's laser found large carbon molecules sitting in ancient riverbed rock. What made them, biology or chemistry, is exactly what no one can yet say.

Science  · 25 Jun 2026, 09:32  · Daniel Okafor