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NASA's Curiosity rover, now over 13 years into its Mars mission, has arrived at a new location called "Laguna del Bayo" for detailed geological analysis while a recent string of discoveries — including the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars and groundwater-carved "spiderweb" rock formations — builds the strongest circumstantial case yet for ancient Martian life. A February 2026 study in Astrobiology found that known non-biological processes cannot fully account for the organic compounds Curiosity detected, leaving biological origins as a plausible explanation even as NASA's Mars Sample Return program has been effectively canceled by Congress.