When rover Perseverance landed on Mars On February 18, 2021, the equipment used to turn on “forbidden, descent and landing(Entry, Descent and Landing / EDL) was excluded. Shortly thereafter, US space agency surveillance cameras detected the debris in more remote areas, and now they have determined the origin of the previously identified “unknown objects” – they found that they were fragments of the spacecraft’s own instruments. NASAas part thermal blanket.

The materials have been blown away by the wind and are now even further away than originally thought and even more fragmented. As they continued to explore the planet, they came across several such “shiny materials‘, as scientists have described,

The region known as Hogwarts Apartmentsfound about 2 km northwest of the zone they chose for EDLcontained some of these “secrets“. In addition to the remains of the thermal blanket, they also found other items, such as possibly pieces of Dacronwho created a look reminiscent of small strings that are duplicated all over the world until they discover its origin, as “martian spaghetti“- fatally, everything was wrong”Martian‘, as it seemed.

(The famous Martian spaghetti / Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech).

Remains of other explorations of Mars

The whole situation is just the effect of human intervention in a remote location.. This isn’t the first time they’ve come across pieces of their own equipment. In 2004 discovered what shortly thereafter was determined to be heat shield from rover opportunity, along the spring to the side. Large equipment such as parachutes and the like are easy to spot during ongoing missions.

(Heat shield and spring forward / Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell)

As gradual improvement of cameras, experts believe that such experiences will become more common. Together with the evolution of research and identification methods, they hope to determine the origin of these debris even faster so that they can continue to observe materials that are truly native to the red planet.

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Source: mars.nasa.gov, gizmodo.com.

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