Color Mars Purple! Poem by Ima Ryma

The Perseverance rover roves
The Mars landscape and does find that
Purple is splashed on rocks in droves,
'Round the red planet habitat.
What does this purple on red mean?
Scientists scratch their theory heads.
Could ancient life have been on scene,
Showing now as purples on reds?
The rover's taking samples so
The puzzled scientists can do
Closer studies to maybe show
What makes Mars red have purple hue.

How purple and past life equate -
We on Earth will just have to wait.