NASA's Perseverance rover excavates on Mars, for the first time, mysterious 'spot' found inside the rock
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover has shared photos from its recent sampling adventure. The rover made a hole within the surface of the Martian rock. Underneath the surface the rover found something that 'no one had ever seen' before. Photos of its recent discovery were shared by the rover on its official Twitter handle. The caption read, 'I cut a tiny low section of this rock to get rid of the surface layer and appearance below.'
The first image shared in the tweet shows the rover with its heavy-duty instruments cutting through the surface of a Martian rock. within the second photo, a circular mark made within the surface of the rock is visible and white dust is scattered around it. The rover then takes a better have a look at the trail within which the dust seems like sand. within the fourth photo, the surface beneath the rock is visible, whose texture looks different from the outer surface of the rock.
NASA's Perseverance rover will collect samples from the surface beneath the rocks, which can be analyzed by mission scientists. Several users reported that the fourth image, which shows the interior structure of the rock, incorporates a strange white triangular spot at the highest. The white spot is triangle shaped and stands out from the remainder of the surface.
This image was soft on the rover's Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operation and Engineering (WATSON) camera, one in all the rover's science cameras. The rover is currently located at Jezero Crater on Mars. Scientists believe that after this crater was full of water. Samples collected by the rover will be brought back to Earth by another mission within the early 2030.