{"id":26452,"date":"2022-09-17T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/nasa-perseverance-rover-confirms-organic-matter-in-mars-jezero-crater-soil-samples"},"modified":"2022-09-17T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T15:11:47","slug":"nasa-perseverance-rover-confirms-organic-matter-in-mars-jezero-crater-soil-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/nasa-perseverance-rover-confirms-organic-matter-in-mars-jezero-crater-soil-samples","title":{"rendered":"NASA: Perseverance Rover Confirms Organic Matter in Mars Jezero Crater Soil Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mars Perseverance Rover has detected organic matter in new soil samples taken from the Jezero Crater being investigated for signs of primeval microbes, NASA scientists announced in a press release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found sandstone that carries grains and rock fragments created far from Jezero Crater \u2013 and a mudstone that includes intriguing organic compounds,\u201d Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley of the California Institute of Technology said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance has analyzed the rock samples and confirmed that they feature a class of organic molecules that are spatially correlated with those of sulfate minerals, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact [that] the organic matter was found in such a sedimentary rock \u2013 known for preserving fossils of ancient life here on Earth \u2013 is important,\u201d the release added.<\/p>\n<p>The rover has collected four samples from an ancient river delta in the Jezero Crater since July 7, bringing the total count of scientifically compelling rock samples to 12, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. The Mars Perseverance Rover has detected organic matter in new soil samples taken from the Jezero Crater being investigated for signs of primeval microbes, NASA scientists announced in a press release on Thursday. \u201cWe found sandstone that carries grains and rock fragments created far from Jezero Crater \u2013 and a mudstone that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-26452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NASA: Perseverance Rover Confirms Organic Matter in Mars Jezero Crater Soil Samples - 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