The NASA-Mars-Rover Perseverance has lost a faithful companion. After 427 Sols (Marstagen), over an Earth year, the rock that was traveling in the rover’s front left wheel is gone. In the February 2022 the stone first appeared in a photo. Now the Mars geologist shared Gwénaël Caravaca the “sad news” that the “friend” has disappeared, via twitter with.
Die NASA personified technical devices such as the Rover Perseverance, for example through Twitter accounts that report from the perspective of the instrument. This is how a simple stone, which rolled into the rover’s wheel and stayed there, was made into a “Freund” close.
Stony Martian landscape
But Perseverance is not alone. In March were photos via twitter divided, the further “hitchhiker” show that have accumulated over the months. More stones can be found in the right front and rear wheel.
The rocks slide into the wheels when the rover navigates uneven terrain or larger rocks break under its weight. The range of objects that can get caught in the rover’s wheels is enormous. Like the almost daily new pictures on the Perseverance-Blog show, the Martian landscape is particularly rocky.
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