A NASA rover has spotted what appears to be a piece of debris lying between two rocks on Mars as it looks for signs of life on the Red Planet.
And NASA posted on its Twitter account, “The team found something unexpected.”
He explained that a “thermal blanket” was thought to be part of the wreckage of equipment that contributed to the astronaut’s safe landing on Mars last year.
The agency wondered why the piece had reached a location about two kilometers from where the landing gear broke, most likely due to wind.
My team has seen something unexpected: this is a piece of thermal blanket that they think may have come from my landing stage, the rocket jetpack that dropped me on the day of landing in 2021. pic.twitter.com/O4rIaEABLu
– NASA Endurance Rover (@NASAPersevere) June 15, 2022
That shiny piece of foil is part of a thermal blanket – a material used to control temperature. It’s surprising to find this here: My landing stage fell about 2 km. Did this piece land here after that or did it blow here with the wind? pic.twitter.com/uVx3VdYfi8
– NASA Endurance Rover (@NASAPersevere) June 15, 2022
During their journey to Mars, the spacecraft is exposed to extreme temperatures and gravitational forces, which cause them to penetrate the atmosphere at a speed of 20,000 kilometers per hour.
This equipment helps to reduce the impact of this on the spacecraft, because it separates from them before landing and suffers severe damage.
NASA plans to continue operating the Perseverance spacecraft until January 2023, as it constantly sends images and searches for examples to study.
The Perseverence rover is designed to discover traces of ancient microorganisms that once filled Mars, probably three billion years ago.
Endurance In February 2021, after a seven-month space flight, it landed on the surface of Mars with amazing success and launched a mission that will last for several years. In search of evidence of possible past life on the Red Planet.
The massive ship landed at the mouth of the Jezero, which scientists believe housed a lake 3.5 billion years ago and is the most dangerous landing site to date due to its topography.
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