News Summary

• On June 13, the Mars Perseverance Rover was photographed as a green speck by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
• It has taken the rover 1,890 Martian sols — or five years and four months in Earth time — to travel 26.2 miles on the Red Planet.
• The carbon detected is known as macromolecular carbon or MMC, which is known to originate from living organisms.
• It may originate from biological sources such as fossilized organic matter found in microbial mats and coal.