Just as a side note, this rock has been garnering lot of interest pretty much immediately as it was discovered a year ago. There were also few papers published this spring hinting at biological origin.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/26/science/nasa-perseverance...

https://earthsky.org/space/life-on-mars-leopard-spots-poppy-...

So if you feel like you heard this story before, then it's probably one of the previous times this rock made the rounds

I think the notable thing this time is Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy referring to the (current) Sep 10th Nature paper by summarizing that “After a year of review, they have come back and they said, listen, we can’t find another explanation, so this very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting.”