NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected a buried ancient river delta beneath the surface of Mars’s Jezero Crater using ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered subsurface traces of an ancient river delta on Mars.

When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have been focused on ...

The river delta could be between 3.7 billion and 4.2 billion years old.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered a buried ancient river delta on Mars using ground-penetrating radar, revealing evidence of early water flow and boosting hopes of past microbial life on the ...