POTs Mars Rover has seen some of this world, a mysterious and in the form of a lifting skull on a slope where the stars gazers say he does not.
The mysterious rock, called “Skull Hill”, was discovered on April 11 by the Perseverance Rover While driving on a crest called Witch Hazel Hill.
The hill is part of the Jezero crater, a mass basin of 28 miles wide that scientists believe that once a lake was held.
What makes the rock so interesting is that it does not resemble the surroundings.
While most of the terrain is light and dusty, Skull Hill is dark, angular and covered with small wells, as if it is is, is, it catches from another place, according to Margaret Deahn, a PH.D. Student of the University of Purdue working with NASA.
That could be real what happened.
In addition to this contact, the Rover has encountered a variety of ordered rocks that may have originated from another place and transported to its current location, also known as “float,” Deahn wrote in a Blog About the finding.
The team believes that Skull Hill could have moved from its original erosion location, an ancient impact or other powerful natural event.
At first glance, it seemed like a possible meteorite.
But after using the Perseverance laser supercam to verify the chemistry of a similar rock, NASA scientists governed that they did not have the high levels of iron and nickel types of space rocks.
Another possible theory is that Skull Hill is an igneous rock formed when lava or magma cooled, possible millions or billions of years.
“Fortunately for us, the Rover has instruments that can measure the chemical composition of the rocks on Mars,” said Deahn, which is likely to be more evidence to determine the origins of the rock.
