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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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On the plains of Jezero, the secrets of Mars' past await us! Follow for the latest news, updates, pretty pics, and community discussion on NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's most ambitious mission to Mars!

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[โ€“] SpecialSetOfSieves 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks! They're being thorough with SuperCam and the UV imager again, even if (I suspect) they don't expect fluorescent minerals up here. I imagine this site will get the "full treatment", as Mars Guy puts it.

This latest abrasion hole, with the fair-sized mineral grains it exposes, really makes me wonder about the dark massive rocks capping the hill, which Prof. Ruff tentatively identified as ignimbrites. Everyone came into this mission jazzed about sedimentary geology, but the volanic/igneous history of this place is proving to be pretty interesting, even mysterious.

EDITED an erroneous adjective.