NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument ...

which uses its SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument to analyze Martian rocks and regolith (often mistakenly called soil ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover keeps photographing a maze — but it's not on Mars. Learn how this intricate pattern helps calibrate SHERLOC, the rover’s high-tech tool for detecting signs of ancient life.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back thousands of images from Mars, but one recurring subject stands out: a tiny, ...

As we look for traces of ancient life on Mars, we need to consider the impact of ionizing radiation in the biosignature preservation process. Here, we irradiated two organic rich terrestrial samples ...

The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument to ...

Some scientists believe the streaks are proof of flowing water on the planet and could suggest the Red Planet is home to habitable environments. Others believe the streaks are caused by dry ...

Some have interpreted those streaks as liquid flows, suggesting the possibility of currently habitable environments on the ... they used it to scan more than 86,000 high-resolution satellite ...

drilling small holes in the planet's surface and searching for evidence of past habitable environments on Mars. It has also been busy observing the weather. Curiosity is outfitted with a miniature ...

The dangers of “forever chemicals”, known as PFAS ... investigation should be undertaken consistent with the National Environment Protection Measure 1999. While the disconnections remain ...