"...scientists this week have revealed that the rover's exploration of Jezero Crater has yielded the discovery of organic compounds in the dust and rock." via Unexplained-Mysteries Headline Image: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered organic compounds in rocks and dust on the floor of Jezero Crater. It has certainly been an eventful year for the car-sized rover which, having launched in July 2020, landed on the surface of the Red Planet back in February, beginning a whole new era of exploration on Mars with the ultimate goal of determining if life may have once existed there. Fast-forward ten months and now scientists this week have revealed that the rover's exploration of Jezero Crater has yielded the discovery of organic compounds in the dust and rock. While these do not necessarily mean that there is (or was) life on Mars and such compounds have been found on the Red Planet before, the discovery is significant because it shows that the rocks on Mars are