In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.
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Perseverance rover spots mysterious 'visitor from outer space' rock on Mars surface after 4 years
NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has suggested that this rock may be a meteorite, containing elements typically associated with iron-nickel meteorites formed in the cores of large asteroids.
NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to ...
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NASA Discovered a Rock on Mars That Doesn't Belong There
More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – ...
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NASA Robot Unexpectedly Found an 80-Centimeter Rock on Mars That Most Likely Wasn’t From the Planet
Though seemingly an ordinary space rock, this rock, named Phippsaksla, belongs to some other planet in the solar system. Or ...
The rover utilized its Left Mastcam-Z camera to document this fascinating find during Sol 1629 of the Mars 2020 mission, at a local mean solar time of 12:11:25. Recent analysis using Perseverance's ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a potential extraterrestrial rock on Mars, possibly originating from deep space.
A mysterious rock on Mars has NASA scientists buzzing with excitement. Its unusual composition hints at an interstellar ...
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Unusual Rock Found By NASA's Perseverance Rover Likely "Formed Elsewhere In The Solar System"
The 80-centimeter (31-inch) wide rock, named “Phippsaksla", stands out from its environment. It was found back on September 2, 2025, using Perseverance's Left Mastcam-Z camera, on Sol 1612, the ...
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NASA captures photos of unusual rock discovered on Mars that doesn't actually belong there
It's been five years since NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars, sending back images and data that have revealed ...
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