In search for life on Mars, NASA’s 2020 Rover mission will land in an ancient lakebed

Drumroll, please... after five years of deliberation over more than 60 candidate sites, NASA has finally decided where the Mars 2020 rover will land. An artist's conception shows the descent of NASA's Curiosity rover to the Martian surface. Humans won't be on it, but now we know where NASA's next mission to search for signs of life on Mars will land. After searching and debating the possibilities for five years, NASA chose the ancient Jezero Crater lakebed as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 robot rover mission, the agency announced Monday. "The landing site in Jezero Crater offers geologically rich terrain, with landforms reaching as far back as 3.6 billion years old, that could potentially answer important questions in planetary evolution and astrobiology," NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen said in a statement.