An image captured by the Mars rover Perseverance shows a mysterious doughnut-shaped rock on the red planet’s surface
. Launched in July 2020, the Mars Perseverance rover continues to explore the planet’s 28-mile-wide Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial life, according to NASA. The rover collects samples of rock and broken rock and soil for possible return to Earth by a future Mars mission.
” The river channel likely transported the doughnut-shaped rock from another area, he added. The rock is larger than 25 centimeters wide, but exactly how much larger is unknown, Rice said. Another rock could have been embedded in the center of the doughnut-shaped rock before weather eroded it, leaving a cavity, he added. Wind can also gradually enlarge any small pits or cavities that were already there. Or the rock could have just been weaker in its center.
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