NASA found alien remains swimming in water?

NASA's Perseverance rover has found an incredible treasure trove of life .

New analysis from Imperial College London (ICL, University of London - UK) based on a rock found by Perseverance at the bottom of Mars' giant Jezero Crater has shown simultaneous interactions between rock and liquid water, as well as organic compounds.

Jezero Crater has long been thought to be a haven for ancient alien life. Previous evidence based on NASA remote sensing data suggests the massive impact crater may have once contained a river delta . Perseverance's mission is to find evidence to confirm that.

A photo of the Martian world taken during the exploration of Jezero Crater - (Photo: Perseverance/NASA/ASU).

Perhaps it had another success. According to Professor Mark Sephton from ICL's Department of Earth Science and Engineering, a member of the Perseverance research team, the bottom of Jezero Crater is where the rover landed for safety reasons before moving to the plains.

In this lake, scientists only expected to find and sample some sediment layers, but were surprised to find cooled magma there, with minerals recording significant contact with water through a state-of-the-art scanning device called SHERLOC , mounted on the arm of the Perseverance rover-like robot.

These minerals, such as carbonates and salts, need water to circulate in the volcanic rock, creating cavities and depositing dissolved minerals in pores and cracks.

And just like similar cavity-filled rocks in Earth's oceans — where tiny creatures choose to make their homes — these cavities also contain remnants of organic matter.

This raises the possibility that this is evidence of ancient Martian creatures that once swam in water, which scientists will need time to further examine.

The work, funded by NASA, the European Research Council, the Swedish Space Agency and the UK Space Agency, was published in the journal Science.

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