As humanoid robots continue to crawl across the Martian surface, they send out more sights and sounds from the Red Planet. The Perseverance Wagon, for example, delivers a powerful 360-degree surface view flow, from both soil And high in the air. Now, NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft has found something… interesting. Features small “eccentric” rocks that resemble exotic Martian rocks. (Or maybe the little Onix from Pokemon?)
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Live Science It picks up features of the newly discovered Martian rock, which Curiosity glimpsed in the planet’s Gale Crater. Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, has been exploring a 100-mile-wide crater for the past eight years. He sent out a large set of images showing red rocky mountains, endless dusty terrain, and the Martian sky.
Thus NASA’s Science Mission Directorate According to reports, Curiosity gazed at the “little hermetic bow” as it ascended (which is still running) through Aeolus Mons, also known as Mount Sharp. The 2,000-pound six-wheeler is traversing the mountain in an attempt to analyze sediment layers transitioning from silt-carrying to sulfate-carrying. It shows you… Even on Mars, geology seems boring. (JK, it’s a rock.)
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As for the feature itself, NASA says it’s only 6.5 inches but features a very unique texture. It’s not entirely clear what caused the attractive, wavy, and fragile structure to develop, but how it emerged from above. Mars surface Beautiful thing. One could speculate that this kind of shape could have formed from something dripping onto the ground from time to time. But this doesn’t seem to be a possibility in this case.
Despite the oddity of the minor surface features, Curiosity has continued on its way. As of this writing, I have probably moved on to the “Champeaux” examination, another nodular The foundation of interest. Maybe there you can find some other rocky friends of this little creature. Maybe a mound of dust that resembles a Squirtle?
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