The Perseverance rover has captured new images revealing geological evidence of a fast-flowing river that once poured into Mars' Jezero Crater.
According to the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Perseverance probe has marked 1,000 days of operation on the 'Red Planet'.
A 2.38 billion pixel NASA image shows a Martian landscape where life may have once flourished inside lakes.
On the newly formed planet
The Perseverance spacecraft sent back images of the friend to Earth
NASA's Perseverance rover has collected soil and rock samples on Mars to bring back to Earth for research.
Geologists say an area in the delta near the Perseverance probe may contain fossil evidence of extraterrestrial life.
A large river once supplied water to this low-lying area. Most likely, the water source was also the source of life for Martian organisms that existed billions of years ago.