The Mars Perseverance rover has made some fascinating discoveries recently, including finding a never-before-seen rock type on Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the clearest view of Mars’ landscape yet, showing incredible blue rocks on the dusty surface that raise pivotal questions about the Red Planet’s complex history.
“This was like the textbook definition of the bright, shiny thing because it was so bright and white,” says NASA planetary geologist Dr. Katie Stack Morgan from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory . The Perseverance team captured the new images using the rover’s SuperCam, designed to examine rocks and soils on Mars using a camera, laser, and spectrometers, as well as the MastCam-Z.
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