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As National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) rover Perseverance examines the Mars surface, researchers looking for clues of past life on the distant planet are making use of data collected on a mission that is very much closer to home at a lake in Southwest Turkey.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) says the rock and mineral deposits at Salda are the closest match on earth to those near the Jezero Crater where the rover is arrived and which is assumed by scientists to have once been drenched with water.
Information collected from the Salda Lake may be of help to researchers as they hunt for skeletal traces of microbial life secured in sediment believed to have been stored around the delta and the long-vaporized lake it once fed.