NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) discovered that there might be biosignatures on mars using a space rover and what they saw shocked them.

NASA’s space rover went over the Jezero Crater and acquired a sample and called it “Sapphire Canyon” The space rover, named Perseverance was launched during President Donald Trump’s first term.

With this discovery, this is the closest NASA has ever gotten to discovering life on Mars.

NASA spoke to one of Perseverance scientist, Joel Hurowitz from stoney Brook University and he stated that “The combination of chemical compounds we found in the Bright Angel formation could have been a rich source of energy for microbial metabolisms.”

According to NASA they stated that “The combination of these minerals, which appear to have formed by electron-transfer reactions between the sediment and organic matter, is the potential fingerprint of life.”

Perseverance’s project scientist Katie Stack Morgan in their Jet Propulsion Laboratory also stated that “Astro biological claims, particularly those related to the potential discovery of past extraterrestrial life, require extraordinary evidence.”

The Sapphire Canyon is one of the 27 rock cores that the rover Perseverance had collected since the landing at the Jezero Crater in February 2021. Additionally, NASA has science instruments that can be used as a weather station which provides environmental information for future missions.

NASA also has Swatches of Spacesuit material so NASA can study how effective the spacesuits are on Mars.