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On the road to Krokodillen: A NASA’s navigation cameras took over the Rover paths coming from an area called “Witch Hazel Hill”, on May 13, 2025, on 1503 of Mars, or Sol, from the task. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s perseverance in a new area on Mars, which may contain some of the oldest and most interesting rocks.
perseverance It fell inside Chezeo Crat at the 28 miles (45 km) in February 2021, on a mission to search for previous signs Mars life And collecting dozens of samples for future return to land.
ROOR has covered the size of the car in the past in the past four years, and has now reached another new place-a plateau of rock rocks called Mission Krokodilllen, after a series of mountainous hills in PRINS Karls Island in Norway. (Krokodillen means “crocodile” in Norwegian.)
Krokodilllen, which covers about 73 acres (30 hectares), are the boundaries of the ancient rocks of the edge of Gizero and the plains behind. The previous work indicates that it houses clay minerals, which are formed in the presence of liquid water.
If the perseverance finds more of these minerals throughout the Krokodilllen, this may indicate that the area may have been residence for a long time – an interesting idea, given the era of rocks.
“Krokodillen’s rocks were formed before the creation MarsKen Farli, deputy of the project, said to persevere from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadina, in A. A statement on Monday (May 19).
“If we find a file Possible biological glow “It is possible that this is more likely to be more different from the development of Mars more than that we found last year in the hole with” Cheyava Falls “,” Farley added.
Cheyava Falls is a rock in the form of shares of shares in 2024. I found Rover Chemical signatures and structures That is consistent with the activity of ancient microbial life. But such features may be produced by geological processes, so they remain possible instead of ultimate biological neglect.
In fact, confirmation of the existence of current or preceding life on Mars may be a very long task for perseverance, given a limited scientific load. For this reason, Rover collects samples that can be returned to Earth to study in well -equipped laboratories all over the world. (The future of the return of the Mars sample is currently doubtful, it will be to request the Trump administration budget 2026 Cancel the current plan To bring the materials collected in perseverance.)
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Speaking about samples: The perseverance team implements a new strategy to move forward, according to the two statement. Rover will now leave some of its newly -full tubes, so that it can get rid of the samples collected in favor of those that are likely to be more exciting if necessary. The team deals with this amount because the perseverance decreases on unprotected tubes and still has a lot of interesting land to cover.
Rover It holds 43 tubes38 of them to collect samples. (The other five are “Watch” tubes designed to help the mission team determine whether any materials in the samples collected are pollutants from the ground.)
The perseverance has filled everything except seven of its tubes at this stage, according to the world of the acting project Katie Stack Morgan of NASA Jet Payment Laboratory In southern California.
“Mars has been explored for more than four years, and every tube is full of sample on board with his unique and convincing story that must be listed,” she said in the same statement. “This strategy provides us with the utmost flexibility, as we continue our collection of various and convincing rock samples.”
