Last Sunday, June 12, persistence, The rover, on a mission to Mars since 2021, took some photos a geological formation that looks like a snake’s headwhich has attracted the attention of researchers. The images were taken during a mission called “sun 466(a term for a day on Martian territory). When captured, other stones can be observed, such as formation consisting of several layers, above the part that resembles “snake head“, this is boulders in a curious place.

Perserverance rover finds ‘garbage’ on red planet
The thermal plate could have been from the rocket that took the jeep to Mars

Perhaps this region was part of the ancient river delta at the bottom of the Jezero craterthe place where the rover landed when it arrived on the planet.

The rover originally landed on Mars. February 18, 2021accompanied naivete, helicopter attached to the spacecraft. The main aspect of the mission is collect soil samples for later study over the next few years, as well as look for lost traces of possible living creatures that could supposedly inhabit the region. Until the moment helicopter completed more than 29 flights no problem; Rover already reached the point the opportunity to choose the best rocks for photography.

(Photos taken by Perseverance, with the boulder in what appears to be a “balanced” position and the rock shaped like a snake’s head. / Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/ space.com)

The automated system for selecting items of interest is based on the Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Enhanced Science (EGIS) created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Jet Propulsion Laboratory), from NASA, for other missions. OUR super camera has a visible and infrared light sensor (VISIT / visible and infrared) and a spectrometer known as “Raman“.

During your cycles EGIS send requests to navigation camera, rover surveillance camera, capture footage. Shortly thereafter, the photographs are analyzed in search of rock formations and, prioritizing certain aspects, I like its brightness and size.

Roger Vincesupercam principal investigator, adds:

When perseverance chooses his targets, the observation procedure takes place the next day. Vein concludes:

“If the rover selects the next targets, it will immediately be able to fire on them.”

For researchers, one of the benefits of analysis results super camera it is the ability to quickly observe interesting chemical compositions – with enough time to decide if further analysis is needed before continuing to explore the red planet.

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Source: br.financas.yahoo.com, space.com