Curiosity Blog, Sols 4968-4974: Rock Climbing Towards the Discontinuity - NASA Science
The meteorite slice gives SHERLOC a known Martian reference, and a 2025 analysis found the instrument repeated the same signatures over 1,000 sols.
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4968-4974: Rock Climbing Towards the Discontinuity - NASA Science
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A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from
In 1999, out on the gravel flats of central Oman, someone picked up a dark, unremarkable rock. It went into the Natural History Museum in London the following year, catalogued as Sayh al Uhaymir 008, or SaU 008. That rock is a fragment of Mars and today a slice of it is bolted to a rover driving around Jezero crater, doing a small, practical job on the planet it was thrown off of hundreds of thousands of years ago. The rock itself SaU 008 is a s…
NASA has once again surprised the scientific community with new images of the red planet that show something that no one expected to find this clear. Rover Perseverance, who has been going through the Jezero crater for more than five years, has captured rock formations that seem to challenge the laws of geology as we know them on Earth. These are rocks that appear on top of each other in an unusual balance, almost as if someone had stacked them …
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