The intrepid rover found a donut-shaped rock that may be a meteorite which landed on Mars.
by the SETI Institute. It “could be a large meteorite alongside smaller pieces,” SETI researchers wrote.Mars is often littered with space rocks as the planet is located next to the main asteroid belt of the Solar System, which contains millions of rocky objects.
The atmosphere on Mars is only 1% as thick as Earth’s atmosphere, which means that space rocks can easily travel through the Martian atmosphere largely unscathed, landing in bigger pieces as opposed to disintegrating through Earth’s atmosphere.another odd rock that may have also been a meteorite. In true Percy fashion, the rover zapped it with lasers to investigate it. “This odd one has my science team trading lots of hypotheses,” NASA’s Perseverance team wrote on Twitter.
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