Penetrating Percy’s “Hidden Mission” with … Ingenuity

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OK, what is the REAL Perseverance mission to Jezero Crater?

Yes, I know what NASA says--

"The Perseverance rover will search for ancient Martian microfossils of long-extinct bacteria ... or ... at least their organic "biosignatures" (molecular evidence of former biochemistry, likely to be found hidden in the rocks) ...."

But, REALLY ....

If THAT is Percy's official "NASA mission," how come it's carrying a ground-penetrating RADAR instrument -- capable of seeing (roughly ...) only 30 feet under the undulating ancient lakebed that Percy's currently sitting on?; if Jezero was truly such "an ancient lake," slowly filling with sediments washed down by the obvious ancient river channel visible just to the west of the crater, what underground "geology" could Percy's little radar possibly find ... if the deposited ancient lakebed sediments lying underneath it are (likely) "several hundred feet deep" ... far under the surface, blowing in sands that Perseverance is currently driving on?

And, what about the little helicopter -- Ingenuity?

How does THAT fit into the ostensible Prime Percy Mission of "searching for ancient Martian life ..."

Join us tonight, as we unveil -- with "ingenuity" -- Percy's REAL "hidden mission" Mission to the Planet Mars.

I warn you ... it's a "doozy."

Richard C. Hoagland