
Potential Life Clues on Mars: Ancient Rock with Leopard Spots
Possible Life on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance rover recently uncovered a Martian rock adorned with distinctive “leopard-like” spots—tiny dark rings surrounding lighter nodules—captured in the Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel outcrop. Collected in July 2024 and nicknamed Cheyava Falls, this arrowhead-shaped rock formed 3.2–3.8 billion years ago in a lakebed environment when Mars was wetter Wikipedia+3Reuters+3The Times…