Artist's concept of the Perseverance Mars rover searching for signs of microbial life in rocks.

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Artist's concept of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL). Located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm, the X-ray spectrometer will help search for signs of ancient microbial life in rocks.

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