A Mars Rover Explored a Wasteland and Found an Oasis
Billions of years ago, the view from the edge of Jezero crater would have been “spectacular.”
Millions of miles away, on the surface of Mars, inside an enormous crater, a little NASA rover is taking some pictures. The view is quite stunning there—miles of undisturbed cinnamon terrain scattered with pebbles and boulders, with silky dunes where the craggy bedrock doesn’t peek through. But when the rover, named Perseverance, sent the photos back home from the crater, known as Jezero, scientists saw something more.
The arrangement of the sediment?
