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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past? - NASA Science news release (science.nasa.gov)
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[–] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From the blog:

Perseverance performed an initial toe-dip into this clay-bearing unit back in April, creating the Strong Island abrasion patch, before returning back upslope to Witch Hazel Hill to sample some spherule-bearing rocks. Since then, Perseverance has started exploring this clay-bearing unit more extensively, creating the Laknes abrasion on Sol 1526.

Allow me to add, for your viewing pleasure:

36 - Slants River
37 - Name not given - but my nickname for it is "Subtle Scales"
38 - Strong Island
39 - Hare Bay
40 - Name not given - let's call this one "Frisky Freckles"
41 - Name not given - I'll call it "Too-Creamy Coffee"
42 - Laknes

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's extremely useful. Pity they don't release the names of all the patches in the updates. I know we'll eventually see the names in the mission managers reports, but those are many months away.