NASA's Perseverance Robot Finds This Mysterious Rock While Searching For Life On Mars

JAKARTA - There have been many events that have occurred on Mars in the last few months. Some of them are the Ingenuity helicopter launch last week, and the most recent is the discovery of a mysterious green rock by NASA's rover robot, the Perseverance Rover.

The Perseverance robot is currently investigating a green rock found in a region of Mars called the Jezero Crater. Through the Perseverance rover robot, NASA saw a green rock on the surface of Mars. NASA also directed their robot towards the rock.

Cited from Slashgear, Monday, April 5, the origin of the green stone is still shrouded in mystery. NASA scientists have put forward various hypotheses regarding the appearance of the rock.

Scientists also find out where the stone came from. They speculated whether the green rock came from bedrock which later became weathered, as a result of the impact of the Martian rock, or a meteorite.

NASA scientists revealed that the green rock was about six inches long. They detect the rock using the SuperCam laser on the Perseverance rover robot. The aim is to collect data and study the new findings of the green stone starting from the formation process and so on.

Researchers believe that the rock was not formed by its current location. It is possible that the green rock was dragged by water into the crater in the past, it could also be part of a meteorite chunk.

The Perseverance Robot scours the Jezero Crater for signs of ancient life on Mars. The reason is, the area is a deep lake and has rivers in the past.

The laser, which is used by Perseverance to investigate the green rock on Mars, can create an overflow of material clouds that can be analyzed through the camera and spectrometer at the top of the NASA robot.