The Perseverance rover has spotted numerous out-of-place rocks on the surface of Mars, but one in particular has left Nasa scientists baffled about its origins.

A team of scientists has uncovered new details about Mars’ Jezero Crater using the Perseverance rover's cutting-edge technology. Their research reveals a complex volcanic history marked by diverse iron-rich rocks,

The Curiosity rover recently uncovered large deposits of carbon within sulfate-rich layers of Mount Sharp in Mars’ impact basin, Gale Crater. In a paper published this month in the journal Science, data from three of Curiosity’s drill sites revealed an abundance of siderite—an iron carbonate mineral that had been a missing piece in the puzzle of Mars’ wet,