Discovered by Perseverance Rover, an Enigmatic Martian Rock with Hollow Spherules Intrigues NASA

A new rock found by NASA’s rover Perseverance intrigues scientists again. It is a Martian stone made up of hundreds of small spheres, some of them with tiny holes, as a sort of piece of a beaded necklace. Named ‘Bahía de San Pablo’, the rock was discovered on March 11 at one of the edges of the Jezero crater where Perseverance has been exploring since 2021 in search of ancient microbial life.

Subscribe to our WhatsApp channel and carry the information in the palm of your hand. The strange rock on Mars that puzzled NASA On the Witch Hazel Hill slopes, inside the Jezero crater on Mars, NASA found a geological formation that has perplexed its scientists. It is a rock nicknamed “Bahía de São Paulo”, covered by hundreds of dark spheres with rare orifices, fractures and shapes. The finding has awakened multiple hypotheses: from the action …

Scientists shocked to discover rock covered in tiny spherules on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover recently snapped a very peculiar looking rock on the surface of mars. This image, which was photographed on the rim of Jezer...

Discovered by Perseverance Rover, an Enigmatic Martian Rock with Hollow Spherules Intrigues NASA

Earlier this month, NASA’s Perseverance rover made an unexpected discovery on the outer rim of Mars’s Jezero Crater: a rock so unusual in appearance and structure that it has left planetary scientists scrambling for answers. Covered with hundreds of dark gray spheres—some punctured by tiny pinholes—the find is sparking new questions about Mars’s ancient surface processes, from water activity to violent volcanic or impact events. Spotted on the R…

The Jezero crater, an ancient lake bed on Mars that NASA’s rover Perseverance has been meticulously explored, and has once again surprised the scientific community with a discovery that challenges conventional explanations. While tracking the vicinity of Witch Hazel Hill, the robotic vehicle detected an unusually textured rock, called “St. Pauls Bay”, composed of hundreds of tiny dark grey spheres. “St. Pauls Bay”, spherical questions The rock “…