This isn't proof of advanced life on the Red Planet.
NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a photo of a shiny silver object wedged between two rocks on the floor of the Red Planet's Jezero crater.
The space trash is not native to Mars.
There are amazing photos from the Perseverance rover's first year on Mars.
A piece of a thermal blanket that may have come from my descent stage, the rocket-powered jet pack that set me down on landing day back in 2021, has been spotted by my team.
A thermal blanket is a shiny piece of foil. I was surprised to find that my descent stage crashed about 2 km away. Did this piece land here after that or was it blown here by the wind?
We have seen some of the gear that helped Perseverance hit the red dirt before. The Ingenuity helicopter flew over the rover's backshell and parachute on April 19 and snapped amazing photos.
Engineers are using aerial imagery to assess the performance of the backshell and chute, which could inform the design of future Mars missions.
That shiny bit of foil is part of a thermal blanket – a material used to control temperatures. It’s a surprise finding this here: My descent stage crashed about 2 km away. Did this piece land here after that, or was it blown here by the wind? pic.twitter.com/uVx3VdYfi8June 15, 2022
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Perseverance is trying to find signs of ancient Mars life and collect samples to send back to Earth. The mission team members have said that Jezero is a great place to do such work because it was once home to a lake and a river.
scraps of its own protective gear are not included in many of the photos the rover has taken. Perseverance snapped a picture of a boulder and a rock that looked like an open-mouthed snake head in Jezero's delta region.
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