NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers Signs of Past Life on Mars

Mars wasn't always a barren world ruled by raging dust storms. On the contrary, several pieces of evidence suggest that the Red Planet was warm, had lakes of liquid water, and was possibly habitable for a short period in its history. This dramatic transition of Mars is generally attributed to the loss of its magnetic field. A planet's magnetic field is a fundamental ingredient that decides its course of events. It's an entity that can cause the difference between life and death. So the loss of the magnetic field was a turning point in the history of Mars. 

Studying the planet's past habitability has been one of the prime objectives of multiple missions to Mars, including the recently launched Perseverance rover. Perseverance has been exploring the Martian rocks since early 2021, and now, it has found strong signals of organic matter on Mars. So, how did Perseverance make this significant discovery? What does it tell us about the history of Mars? Finally, and most importantly, if life existed on Mars, what did it look like?

The 27th episode of the Sunday Discovery Series answers these questions.

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Created By: Rishabh Nakra and Simran Buttar
Narrated By: Jeffrey Smith

Resources: NASA/JPL, Envato Elements, VideoBlocks, Pond5, MotionElements

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[userfgygjh]

Stop with the click bait titles bro. Ah he changes it after an hour to a less click bait title NICE

[cocacoda]

If the headline was true I'd have heard about it before seeing this video....

[turbomatthewxd]

Your videos have aroused enthusiasm for space, physics and even maths. School couldn't do that when I was a teenager. Thank you!

[woshi]

Plot Twist: Humans are actually from Mars, but one day we discovered we can live on Earth so we decided to make a huge rocket just to fly to Earth and live there

[readingmode]

"organic molecules can act as an indirect indication of the presence of life"
Your content is good, however, your title is intentionally misleading. The above statement is right, however the presence of organics does not indicate irrefutably that life was found on Mars.

[swissbiggy]

Nice video, so keep up the good work. But the clickbait title's are not necessary. You didn't mention anything that most fanatic space lovers didn't knew already. Nevertheless a thumb up 😉

[mospeada]

I'm somewhat curious...
If Mars went 'dry' some 3.5Bn years ago and the planetary dust storms literally change the landscape by covering everything, how is it that said features are still able to be seen after such a long period of time?

[gargirath]

Your videos make me feel to be in love with the universe

[esbuenodun]

the title and thumbnail are click bait. don't undermine your fine work with these tactics. your work speaks for itself.

[Mossy-Rock]

Good information in the video. However, please watch your "headline." It should read, "NASA's Rover Possibly Just Found Signs of Past Life on Mars." Otherwise, it will be clickbait.

[handikasaputra]

this video is very good to add insight to science, especially on the planet mars, thank you.

[ishantsingh]

Please try to explain the formation of stars in a video as per your basics of astrophysics series🙏🙏🙏. I have been requesting this since a long time.

[Paulkruz]

Nice animations, you use blender just like NASA or you have another animation software?

[michaelmurphy]

On earth there are creatures that grow out of the volcanic vents on the bottom of the ocean called extremophiles. If animal life can exist under so much pressure couldn't creatures on the other end of the pressure spectrum With little to no pressure like on Mars?

[ceemee]

Am I misunderstanding that the samples will come to Earth? That's frightening. Can't they go to the moon and we can study them there at a later date? Or at least the ISS? Sounds like the begining of a space horror movie. "It all started when the mars rocks at the lab began showing signs of... "

[milkywayexplorer]

I really hope I'll still be there in the mid 30's !

[slimshadys]

@The Secrets of the Universe Please can you tell me what the music track you used was.

[marksauck]

It’s kind of nice that we have in our solar system a planet fairly close and habitable enough for humans to walk on and explore. Not only that but so much on it to explore and study. Now if we could just get a space ship that can move through space a lot faster to get us there in less than a month or quicker we will have something great.

[dipaoloboat]

The title claims "Breakthrough", yet nothing is presented to prove anything - only speculation is presented.

[adiman]

When see a title like this, it is best to see the comments first…to safe time