NASA’s Perseverance probe discovers a strange tangle

Every now and then, NASA’s rovers discover things that don’t seem to fit in the usual landscapes of Mars: Just a few months ago, Curiosity imagined what seemed to be an entrance. A new image of the chariot of perseverance garners similar interest for capturing what appears to be a tangle of thread.

On July 12, Perseverance’s front-facing camera to avoid hazards captured images of the Martian grass, a piece of garbage. A NASA spokesperson said in an email that the object must have been some debris from the mission, though it’s not yet clear what exactly it is.

In June, shiny A substance in one of the persistence images appeared crammed between a rock formation. NASA specified The object appears as a piece of the rover’s thermal blanket when it landed on Mars in February 2021.

Mars may have once been habitable billions of years ago, but the dry planet is probably devoid of life today. But that doesn’t stop speculation about aliens from escaping every time something a little further out appears in a postcard from Mars. A perfect, ordinary natural phenomenon (or at least “ordinary” like anything on Mars for our human eyes) can create optical illusions when translated into grainy 2D images. Previous examples of presumed anomalies on Mars include A hiding squirrel, a spoon, an artificial light, and a human face.

Although this one-off dish of Mars pasta appears to be innocuous, it raises concerns about the various missions to Mars that litter the planet with debris. NASA and other space agencies disinfect spacecraft before sending them on missions to avoid spreading terrestrial microbes into space. But landing on another planet is a must Leave bits of debris behindAnd there’s really no way for a robot to pick itself up.