NASA’s Mars rover collects rock sample ‘unlike anything we’ve seen before’
NASA is excited by a special stone that his perseverance has just grabbed from the surface of Mars.
“This sample is a kind of treasure,” the space agency says, referring to a rock, which, as you know, is abundantly in a pyroxen with low calcium (LCP). This makes him one of the most exciting mission samples to this day, since it was taken from a single section along the planned route, where this pyroxena zone with low calcium was identified from orbit.
The post on the account of the X persistence was described by the sample – the named Silver Mount of the NASA – as “unlike everything that we saw before,” adding that he sealed the stone heart with a field
Now that I have completed the ascent of the jezer crater, I returned to #SAMPLINGMARS!
My 26th sample, known as the Silver Mountain, has textures, unlike everything that we saw before. I sealed a stone core in a test tube for samples, so that in the future it can be analyzed in laboratories on Earth. pic.twitter.com/yqepzndnfr
– Persistence of NASA Mars Rover (@nasapersever) January 29, 2025
NASA called this specific collection of samples “an important milestone in our mission in order to reveal the geological story of Jaler Crater.”
It also marks a return to the complete study of perseverance after he spent the final part of last year, climbing the side of Jerzero Crater, which he studied since his dramatic landing there four years ago.
The six-wheeled rover took three and a half months to complete the 4640-foot (500-meter) ascent, making several planned breaks along the way in order to conduct scientific observations as part of its ongoing search for signs of ancient microbial life on a distant planet.
At present, NASA is considering the best way to fulfill its mission to return the Mars sample, which will try to bring to Earth all the material collected by persistent ability during its MARS mission. This is a very complex process, since it includes the landing of a spacecraft on the surface of the planet, the collection of samples, transfer them to an orbiting spaceship, and then deliver them to Earth.
But the successful mission of Mars Return will allow scientists to study the Martian material in laboratory conditions, potentially identifying whether the Red Planet ate, and also tell us more about its geological history and evolution.