NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Unknown process is destroying Mars rocks (youtu.be)

submitted 8 months ago by paulhammond5155 to c/perseverancerover

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[–] Dan68 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s microbes.

[–] oDDmON 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Would say, be very careful about bringing back any samples.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I suspect that any Martian microbes would be poorly adapted for living in Earth conditions. Accidentally contaminating Mars with Earth microbes is probably a greater concern.