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Nasa's Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars in 2021, was sent to search for signs of biology and has spent the last four years exploring the Jezero Crater region.

The rover, which is named after British scientist Rosalind Franklin, is planned to touch down on the Martian surface in 2030.

Saving JPL’s signature planetary science missions like the Mars rovers and Jupiter orbiters is more challenging.

Those enjoying the benefits of first arrival could set up generous routes for rovers, equipment at dig sites for deposits, telecommunication assets, and even a nuclear reactor to assert a large area of domain.

The rover found the leopard print rocks last year at the bottom of a canyon carved out by the river in an area called the Bright Angel Formation.