The Curiosity Explorer Finds Unique Objects On The Mars, Rock, Or Meteorite Surface?

JAKARTA - Planet Mars is full of life puzzles, and that's NASA's Curiosity rover's job to solve them. Recently, this robot discovered a unique rock on the planet's surface.

However, the Curiosity rover team is confused, whether it's a rock that has a small gray color or a chunk of meteorite.

"This is an unusual gray floating stone that may be the remnant of higher material on Mount Sharp or possibly a meteorite," planetary geologist Catherine O'Connell-Cooper said in a statement.

"We've analyzed some meteorites over the past 10 years, but the numbers aren't too much that we failed to figure out," he added.

The rock found and photographed by the Curiosity rover resembled the previous meteorite found on Mars, has a dark and sparkling look.

Launching CNET, Tuesday, January 17, Mars has a long history where the planet was once bombarded by rocks from space. NASA's InSight lander even managed to capture the sound of the impact of meteoroids during its mission.

Currently, Curiosity explorers are exploring Gale Crater, climbing the slopes of the central mountain of the crater, Mount Sharp.

One of the areas of interest here is a geological formation called the Marker Band, previously described by O'Connell-Copper as a thin dark ribbon whose origin is unclear. The mystery stone lies under the Marker Band.

Meteorite on Mars is indeed worth studying. In 2016, NASA investigated a meteorite named Egg Rock found by Curiosity explorers.

Egg Rock is an iron meteorite that may initially be part of an asteroid core. Scientists are interested in how Mars' environmental exposure affects iron meteorites and how it compares to what meteorites are experiencing on Earth.