A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken
NASA tends to drip feed this sort of stuff, because every time they release a paper talking about how there is a .5% chance that life might exist on Mars based on new data, the news media is all “OMG LIFE FOUND ON MARS?! ALIENS CONFIRMED>!?!” and then when the scientists clarify that they aren’t saying that, the public gets mad at them and not the sensationalist media lying about it.
NASA tends to drip feed this sort of stuff, because every time they release a paper talking about how there is a .5% chance that life might exist on Mars based on new data, the news media is all “OMG LIFE FOUND ON MARS?! ALIENS CONFIRMED>!?!” and then when the scientists clarify that they aren’t saying that, the public gets mad at them and not the sensationalist media lying about it.