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NASA Made a World-Shaking Discovery: Compelling Evidence of Past Life on Mars

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NASA 's Perseverance rover may have found evidence of past life on Mars .

The rover has spent more than $5 billion on finding evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet .

The rock in question features two vertical veins of calcium sulfate that likely formed from past water.

The presence of millimeter-sized olivine crystals may explain how past volcanic activity could produce this geologic phenomena without relying on microbes.

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