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 regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument ...

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

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 ...

The rover's SHERLOC instrument (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) uses cameras, spectrometers, and a laser to search for organics and minerals that ...

The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) instrument is designed to identify organic molecules and other chemical signatures of past life.

For some background, Perseverance made the find using an advanced instrument called SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals), which is ...

Between those veins are bands of reddish material in which the rover’s instrument SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) has detected ...

Using its SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) and PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry) instruments, Perseverance determined ...

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