Nasa’s Perseverance has achieved a major breakthrough in detecting complex carbon molecules in Martian rocks that are already in the limelight for showing signs of ancient microbial life.

In line with measurements taken by the rover’s Sherloc instrument, Perseverance detected organic carbon in mudstones from the Bright Angel outcrop as it trundled along Neretva Vallis-a dried-up river that........

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