NASA’s Perseverance rover has lost a rock that has been floating on a rover’s wheel on the Martian surface for more than a year. In this respect knowledgeable At Twitter geologist Gwenael Caravaca (Gwenael Caravaca), who specializes in the study of the soil of the Red Planet.
The cobblestone at the edge of the Perseverance wheel discovered a distant planet with the rover for 427 sols — the so-called solar day on Mars lasting 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds.
According to Caravaca, the stone traveled about 10 kilometers with Perseverance. A rock on the left front wheel that scientists jokingly called the rover’s “friend” was spotted in early February 2022.
Afterwards, many social media users following the Perseverance mission were interested in whether the stone would damage the rover’s structure, and NASA employees replied that this was absolutely normal. Engineers built the rover on the basis that the rover’s wheels could pick up the soil;