Mars Perseverance Rover Found a Meteorite - First Meteorite Encounter

THis is the 2nd video in a series this Monday morning as the Mission Control Team has been busily working with the Perseverance Rover...and one of the visible objects found is a good sized Meteorite, which looks just like a chunk of iron, but I am sure is made up of other metals... The resolution of these objects is amazing! It is like being right there on Mars... Note This video only has 313 views thus far, so you will be among the first 500 who watch this...

NASA/JPL
On March 29, 2021 (Sol 37), NASA’s Perseverance Rover captured an image of a peculiar rock that appears to be a meteorite

The rover stumbled upon this rock while it is in the process of deploying the mars helicopter

It will examine the rock using a combination of a laser, a camera and spectrometers mounted at the end of its robotic arm

It captured this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera

This is a raw image from the rover, not color-processed

The rock is quite different from others found in the same area

No official statement or confirmation was given by NASA at the time of making this video

If it turns out to be a meteorite, then it will be Perseverance’s first meteorite encounter.

Credit: NASA, JPL

Enjoy!
Kerry
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