According to the , quoted by USA Today, the Endurance, which landed on the Red Planet in 2021, observed this strange stone while climbing a gentle slope that ended at the edge of the tidal crater. The researchers believe that the rim of this crater is probably full of rocks with more clues about past life on Mars, but they did not expect to make such a discovery so quickly.
NASA announced in a statement that this black and white striped rock is not similar to any of the samples observed on Mars.
The US space agency believes this rock is a sign of more exciting discoveries to come. The members of the research team observed this stone from a distance where signs of its unusual texture could be observed in the probe’s low-quality images. Experts estimated that this stone is about 20 cm in diameter.
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