Dossier
SHERLOC
Coverage of SHERLOC in the Nexus archive.
- A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why
NASA’s Perseverance rover detected complex macromolecular carbon on the surface of a Martian rock in Jezero Crater’s Neretva Vallis. The discovery, made using the SHERLOC instrument, marks the shallowest detection of organic matter on Mars to date, though its origin remains unclear.