[BipolarBob]

That looks just like the Utah desert.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It’s all faked - just like the Lunar Landing. Hollywood can’t put out any decent movies, so it’s turned to fooling The General Public with this...

That said, this is so amazingly COOL! Sad that life on another planet is less TRAGIC than it is on Earth these days. :(

[minnesota_bound]

Looks like green cheese.

[Ros42]

That’s really neat!

[seowulf]

I know I’m being a nit picker here, but if it’s on Mars, it’s not geology.

Aresology maybe.

[xp38]

Just don’t let Howard Wolowitz get near the controls.

[Chainmail]

According to what has been put out by NASA, the primary reason for this mission is to "search for evidence of life" that supposedly previously existed on Mars.

Why? Is it so important to these scientists that life be proven to be so ubiquitous and happenstance that it can spontaneously occur anywhere?

If they can't find any real traces of this life, what's the secondary mission for this very expensive rover?

Will at least some of these scientists finally realize how rare and not accidental life really is?

[zeestephen]

As far as I know, Mars has never had plate tectonics.

Does that mean it is theoretically possible that 4.5 billion year old rocks are just lying around on the surface waiting to be picked up?

[Verginius Rufus]

Jezero means "lake" in several Slavic languages (Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Serbian). Apparently it was named after a village called Jezero in Bosnia (which is near a lake).