Although we can't say for sure that microbes were involved in the formation of the leopard spots at Cheyava Falls, this question can be answered when Perseverance's samples are returned to Earth.

causing a non-biological chemical reaction that created the leopard spots. Since landing on Mars, Perseverance has crossed ...

In one of its latest activities, Perseverance captured a detailed nighttime ... black, and greenish spots in the rock, intriguing scientists. On Earth, green spots in red rocks sometimes develop ...

Closer inspection of these red regions revealed millimetre-sized off-white splotches, each ringed with black material resembling leopard spots. Perseverance's PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray ...

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash ... One of the rock's outstanding features was tiny white "leopard spots" that could suggest the presence of chemical reactions similar to those ...