Did you know that a pet rock has hitched a ride on NASA’s Perseverance rover? The rover has picked up a pet rock while it travels across Mars! The rocky hitchhiker has been inside the rover for a long time, but it hasn’t done any damage to it aside from making for a bumpy ride.
Ms. Ravines said Perseverance picked up the small rock on Feb. 4th,the rover’s 341st day on Mars. Perseverance was exploring a rock formation called Maaz, which scientists believe is made up of ancient lava flows when it came across the rock.
Since then, Perseverance has carried the rock north across its landing site, which is named after the famed, late Science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, and then west across the Kodiak delta, which scientists believe is what remains of the junction of an ancient river and a lake at the Jezero Crater. It’s not the first time a rock has hitched a ride on a Mars rover, but Perseverance’s current companion is on its way to setting Mars hitchhiking records.
Ms. Ravanis said the rover was now in its “Delta Front Campaign.” “The pet rock is now a long way from home,” Ms Ravanis wrote in a blog for Mars 2020.
Ms. Ravines said Perseverance picked up the small rock on Feb. 4th,the rover’s 341st day on Mars. Perseverance was exploring a rock formation called Maaz, which scientists believe is made up of ancient lava flows when it came across the rock.
Since then, Perseverance has carried the rock north across its landing site, which is named after the famed, late Science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, and then west across the Kodiak delta, which scientists believe is what remains of the junction of an ancient river and a lake at the Jezero Crater. It’s not the first time a rock has hitched a ride on a Mars rover, but Perseverance’s current companion is on its way to setting Mars hitchhiking records.
Ms. Ravanis said the rover was now in its “Delta Front Campaign.” “The pet rock is now a long way from home,” Ms Ravanis wrote in a blog for Mars 2020.
