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Every now and then, NASA explorers come across things that don’t seem to fit the usual landscape of Mars: Just a few months ago, Curiosity imagines what seems to be the entrance. The new image of the perseverance car commands a similar interest in capturing what looks like a braid of yarn.
On July 12, Perseverance’s front camera to avoid danger captured images of Martian grass, a piece of trash. A NASA spokesman said in an email that the object must be some debris from the mission, though it’s not yet clear what exactly it is.
In June, shining The substance in one of the persistence images appears crammed into the rock formations. NASA determined The object appeared as part of the rover’s thermal blanket when it landed on Mars in February 2021.
Mars may have been inhabited billions of years ago, but this dry planet may not have life today. But that hasn’t stopped speculation about aliens from escaping whenever something a little further afield appears on postcards from Mars. Perfectly ordinary natural phenomena (or at least “ordinary” like anything on Mars for our human eyes) can create optical illusions when translated into grainy 2D images. Previous examples of alleged anomalies on Mars include Hiding squirrel, spoon, artificial light and human face.
While this one-off dish of Martian pasta seems harmless, it does raise concerns about missions to Mars littering the planet with debris. NASA and other space agencies disinfect spacecraft before sending them on missions to avoid spreading terrestrial microbes into space. But landing on another planet is a must Leave the debris behindAnd there’s really no way for the robot to lift itself.
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