and that's... bad.
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They're investigating the Jezero crater, which is believed to be a dried-up ancient seabed and the most likely place Martian microbial life could've existed if anywhere The goal is to try to discover extraterrestrial life for the first time, if possible
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There's a lot of possible "side effects" that branch off from that, if anything comes of it In order to be recognizable as life, any Mars microbes would have to be *similar* to "life as we know it", but it is very unlikely they would be *identical* to life as we know it
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I'm pretty sure that Perseverance working out where the best place to land and then landing isn't just "blue-sky". Mars is further than 11 light minutes away. By the time anyone in Mission Control could have made a decision it would have been too late.
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Perseverance had to scan the terrain and decide the safest place to land. All on its own. That's before the onboard AI for the actual science experiments come into play.
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