NASA rover snaps photo of its most daunting challenge yet

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NASA rover snaps photo of its most daunting challenge yet

A car-sized

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, weighing over a ton, will scale a crater wall.

The space agency announced that its robotic Perseverance mission, now looking for hints of past life on

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, is embarking on the next phase of Martian exploration. But first, it must climb out of the

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, a region that once held a gushing river and expansive lake. It won’t be easy.

The journey will “include some of the steepest and most challenging terrain the rover has encountered to date,”

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said in a

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The rover captured a view of the ascent ahead. It will encounter 23-degree slopes as it rumbles up 1,000 feet of elevation. There are no roads on Mars, so the path easiest traveled will inevitably mean traversing rock-strewn or steep areas.

The ****** will traverse a route between the two hills shown below.

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The Perseverance rover will ascend the crater wall ahead, gaining 1,000 feet of elevation.

The Perseverance rover will ascend the crater wall ahead, gaining 1,000 feet of elevation. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / **** / MSSS

Mission scientists are eager to reach the summit of Jezero Crater. Water once poured through this region, and hydrothermal activity — processes that create hot groundwater and steam — may have created fissures in the ground long ago.

“These rocks formed from a wealth of different processes, and some represent potentially habitable ancient environments that have never been examined up close before,” Eleni Ravanis, a member of the Perseverance rover team, also said in an agency statement.

NASA is interested in exploring Martian places that once hosted habitable environs — temperate enough to harbor liquid water — because the regions may have preserved evidence of

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. This could mean telltale molecules or features formed by biological processes.

Already, the rover has recently spotted “chemical signatures and structures that could possibly have been

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billions of years ago,” the

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agency said — though proving this will mean

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to Earth.

In the coming months, expect the ****** to beam back the success and travails of its looming, and daunting, Martian ascent.

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