In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these marks are almost always produced by microbial life.
Sure, those specks are not definitive proof of alien life. But they are the best hint yet that life may not be a one-off event in the cosmos.
But the only way to know for sure is to bring a sample of that rock home to study.
Now, just over a year and a half later, the project to do so is on life support, with zero funding…
