Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

Surrounded by green hills and beige rock, Lake Salda sits in what is sometimes called the Turkish Lake District, a great place for hiking ...

According to scientists, Lake Salda is the only place on Earth that’s analogous to the Jezero Crater on Mars. It’s a fact that has piqued the interest in space scientists at a time when ...

Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day.

Perseverance discovered this rock on March 11 on the rim of the Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed that the rover has been exploring since 2021 for signs of past microbial life. Scientists say ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.