NASA made a strange, spaghetti-like explosion on Mars, first seen by the US Space Agency's Perseverance rover. identified a tangle of matter on July 12.
This material is not of biological or other alien origin and is entangled from the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) device that landed the rover on the surface of Mars in February 2021. Dacron net.
Dacron is a resin-embedded synthetic fiber commonly used in high performance sailcloths, butaccording to a NASA blog, it is part of the thermal protection blanket for Perseverance..
"This particular net appears to have undergone considerable unraveling/shredding, suggesting that it has been subjected to strong forces." The blog points out.
This net was not the first piece of wreckageleft when thePerseverance rover landed, but subsequently appeared in the rover's path.
In June, Perseverance discovered a piece of shiny foil-like substance. This is probably because he is part of EDL's thermal blanket and is stuck in a rocky outcrop. And in April, an Ingenuity helicopter landed on Mars with her Perseverance Rover, capturing images of the protective shells and parachutes that carried EDL and Perseverance safely to the Martian surface.
Various landing gear debris, an inevitable consequence of a soft landing on Mars, can pose a challenge for the Perseverance mission team.
Perseverance is tasked with drilling rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars. These samples were collected in the 2030s and returned to Earth, whether they were contained on Mars or still contain native life forms.
NASAwas careful to sterilize thePerseverance before launch to prevent contamination of Mars by Earth microbes,but the rover team used the rover's cameras should be free of material from the EDL. Enter one of the samples drilled by the rover.
"The sampling team also continues to monitor potential sources of contamination to ensure the integrity of the returned sample cache," the blog states.
