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CTOnews.com, September 17 (Xinhua) on February 18, 2021, the third-generation rover perseverance, which weighs more than one ton, successfully landed in the Yazero crater and began its exploration of Mars. Recently, perseverance has made a new discovery.

Perseverance found large amounts of organic matter while investigating rock samples from a delta, which will help reveal whether there is life on Mars, NASA reported yesterday. It is reported that these sedimentary rocks contain complex organic molecules called aromatic compounds, as well as sulfate minerals.

NASA has previously found organic matter on Mars. In 2013, the Curiosity rover found evidence of organic matter in rock samples. Organic matter was also found at the beginning of the landing of perseverance, but compared with previous discoveries, this discovery is very rich in organic matter.

According to reports, NASA needs to bring the samples of this discovery back to Earth in order to get more information. In 2026, NASA and the European Space Agency will launch two spacecraft to Mars. Using these two spacecraft, samples from the Mars rover perseverance will be sent to Earth in 2031.

As previously reported by CTOnews.com, the perseverance rover recently brought a new image of Mars, which consists of more than 1000 individual images with a total of 2.5 billion pixels, which is also the most detailed view of Mars ever taken from the Martian surface.

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