[NASA] The bright-colored rocks exposed across the slope, running from middle left to middle right of the image, belong to a formation the science team calls the “Broom Point member,” […]
Broom Point
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Perseverance Rover Provides A Record of Ancient Mars Impacts
[NASA] Old rocks exposed on the rim of Jezero Crater preserve a roughly 4-billion-year-old cosmic “weather report” from the solar system’s most dynamic era.
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Perseverance Astrobiology Droid Cores ‘Main River’ On Mars
The time-lapse movie, taken by one of the rover’s hazard cameras, is made up of 35 images taken over the course of 34 minutes. Animation available at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26571
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Navigating A Slanted River On Mars
Perseverance is hard at work on Mars, overcoming obstacles for scientific exploration! Just a few sols after successfully sealing the challenging Green Gardens core, Perseverance roved on to the Broom […]
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Mars Perseverance Examines A Rock With Hundreds Of Millimeter-sized Spheres
Last week the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres and the team are now working hard to understand their origin.