SMRTR Science & EngineeringMar 18, 2026Scientific American

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater

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NASA's Perseverance rover used ground-penetrating radar to discover an ancient river system buried 35 meters beneath Jezero Crater's surface, formed 4.2 billion years ago. This finding extends Mars's potentially habitable period by hundreds of millions of years, revealing multiple sustained water flow periods that could have supported life.

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