Perseverance’s leisure has not yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover’s new dig.
NASA’s Rover is waiting for its mate, the Tactical Helicopter, to make its first-ever operated flight to another planet. Meanwhile, his instruments targeted a greenish-looking rock on the surface of the red planet in which the science team “trades a lot of hypotheses.” According to Rover’s Twitter feed – But please do not choose aliens as one of them.
“Is it something cut out of the local bedrock ?,” a Tweet the posted account Surprised on Wednesday (March 31). “Did that piece of Mars come into that field from a distant impact event? Is it a meteorite? Or something else?”
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Added in the tweet, “It’s about 6 inches (15 cm) long.” “If you look closely, you’ll find a row of laser marks where I’ve zipped it to learn more.”
The laser is part of a rock-zaping supercam instrument. Scientists hope that over time, the laser will give us more information about the formation of the bizarre rock, which scientists can tell scientists is designed in a place that has been transported there by some process. If it does not form at its current location, the water may have carried it into the Jezero crater or it may have been a meteorite seen by Curiosity Rover in 2014.
Strength is the focus of NASA’s 7 2.7 billion Mars Mars 2020 missions. The car-sized rover began its work on the Red Planet on February 18, exploring the Jezero Crater for signs of ancient life. The pit consisted of a deep lake and river delta, which provides a very interesting environment for exploring. The rover will cache the most promising specimens for a potential sample-return mission in the next decade.
There are seven science instruments in Khant. The supercam sits on top of the perimeter’s mast and can send laser shots to target rocks up to 23 feet (7 m) from the rover. Each laser beam creates a cloud of steam rock, the composition of which can be analyzed by supercam cameras and spectrometers.
Supercam Money’s first activity on Mars was on March 2, when it fired at a target called Máz, which was the Navajo word for Mars. The Persians team is unofficially dubbing its Jazero Canyon de Chile area after the National Monument on Navajo land in northeastern Arizona, and is consulting with Navaj Nation Nat’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to choose the right names to use on Mars.
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