65dBnoise on Nostr: Remember that strange looking stripped rock from 10 days earlier? #NASA has now given ...
Remember that strange looking stripped rock from 10 days earlier?
#NASA has now given it a name, Freya Castle, and says that "igneous and/or metamorphic processes could have created its stripes" and that they hope "#Perseverance will encounter an outcrop of this new rock type so that more detailed measurements can be acquired." Because this one they saw a few sols after they had imaged it, while the rover had already moved away.
Article:
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/a-striped-surprise/
#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space
#NASA has now given it a name, Freya Castle, and says that "igneous and/or metamorphic processes could have created its stripes" and that they hope "#Perseverance will encounter an outcrop of this new rock type so that more detailed measurements can be acquired." Because this one they saw a few sols after they had imaged it, while the rover had already moved away.
Article:
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/a-striped-surprise/
#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space