Before Perseverance, Jezero crater's floor was variably hypothesized to have a lacustrine,
lava, volcanic airfall, or aeolian origin. SuperCam observations in the first 286 Mars days on …

The presence and distribution of preserved organic matter on the surface of Mars can
provide key information about the Martian carbon cycle and the potential of the planet to host …

Perseverance's Mastcam-Z instrument provides high-resolution stereo and multispectral
images with a unique combination of spatial resolution, spatial coverage, and wavelength …

Collocated crystal sizes and mineral identities are critical for interpreting textural
relationships in rocks and testing geological hypotheses, but it has been previously …

The first samples collected by the Mars 2020 mission represent units exposed on the Jezero
Crater floor, from the potentially oldest Séítah formation outcrops to the potentially youngest …

The goals of NASA's Mars 2020 mission include searching for evidence of ancient life on
Mars, studying the geology of Jezero crater, understanding Mars' current and past climate …

We present a synthesis of PIXL elemental data and SHERLOC Raman spectra collected on
two targets investigated by the Perseverance rover during the first year of its exploration of …

A multi‐instrument study of the regolith of Jezero crater floor units by the Perseverance rover
has identified three types of regolith: fine‐grained, coarse‐grained, and mixed‐type …

During its first year of operation, the Perseverance rover explored the cratered and fractured
floor of Jezero crater on Mars. Here, we report the use of the Scanning Habitability …

The search for potential signs of life on Mars, a primary aim of the Mars 2020 mission, is
greatly informed by the detection of organic matter1. The presence of organic matter also …