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Martian Mudstone Evidence from the Perseverance Rover Is a Potential Biosignature

Data and images from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover reveals that recently discovered rocks in the Jezero crater are organic carbon bearing mudstones.

September 10, 2025

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Professor Joel Hurowitz Celebrates Third Mars Rover Milestone

As an SBU grad student, Hurowitz was part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission in 2004. Now he is involved in the latest rover mission, Perseverance.

July 29, 2020

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Mars Rover Instrument Will Search for Signs of Past Life on the Red Planet

On average, the distance between Mars and Earth is about 140 million miles. But even that great distance is not too much to prevent a Stony Brook professor from helping scientists investigate signs of past life on the...

May 10, 2019

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Martian Mudstone Evidence from the Perseverance Rover Is a Potential Biosignature

Professor Joel Hurowitz Celebrates Third Mars Rover Milestone

Mars Rover Instrument Will Search for Signs of Past Life on the Red Planet

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