The Mars doughnut isn’t the only pastry-shaped rock that has been found on the planet. The rover team has no plans to do so, as it’s currently driving Perseverance in the opposite direction toward boulders it will eventually sample, Rice said. … I would recommend that Perseverance divert from its current course to check it out.” NASAs Perseverance Mars rover sealed the tube containing its 20th rock core sample on June 23. It’s also possible that the rock was “thrown away from another part of Mars by the impact of a large asteroid,” Lee said. In this case, the doughnut shape could have been created by weaker materials in the rock eroding upon entering Mars’ atmosphere, he added. The rock is surrounded by smaller rocks or fragments, “so maybe (it’s) a meteorite that broke up upon landing,” Lee said. National Science FoundationĪn observatory in Antarctica reveals ‘ghostly’ new portrait of the Milky Way Rice, who is on the rover’s Mastcam-Z imaging team, first spotted the rock on June 14.Īn artist's composition of the Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue). Two holes can be seen where the rover used its robotic arm to drill rock core samples. NASAs Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rovers robotic arm. NASA’s Perseverance Rover Cameras Capture Mars Like Never Before Using its WATSON camera, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed Rochette, on Sept.10, 2021, the 198th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
1 - 7, 2021) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars. The Perseverance team hasn’t made the rover go closer to the doughnut-shaped rock to examine or sample it, so its exact makeup and origins are unknown, said Jim Rice, an assistant research scientist in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. This photo was selected by public vote and featured as 'Image of the Week' for Week 25 (Aug. The Mars “doughnut” is one of the latest objects captured about 100 meters (roughly 328 feet) away in the delta of the Jezero Crater by the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager - one of the rover’s cameras helping scientists see what’s on the planet’s surface. The rover collects samples of rock and broken rock and soil (called regolith) for possible return to Earth by a future Mars mission. Launched in July 2020, the Mars Perseverance rover continues to explore the planet’s 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial life, according to NASA. ET It has been a long journey for Perseverance, NASA's latest Mars rover, which landed safely on the. An image captured by the Mars rover Perseverance shows a mysterious doughnut-shaped rock on the red planet’s surface. An image from Perseverance, NASA's Mars rover.
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