Alex Jones, PhD written by Imperial College London
Last week, the Science team was surprised by a strange rock containing hundreds of millimeters of shaped areas… and the team is now trying hard to understand its origin.
It’s been two weeks now when the persecution arrived at the Brom Point, which is located at the bottom of the witch Hazel Hill on Jizro Corder Rum. Here, a series of mild and deep tund bands was visible from orbit, and only last week, Rover successfully eliminated one of the light tons of beds and samples. It was from the sampling workplace where the perseverance spied a very strange structure in a nearby rock …
The rock, called “St. Paulus Bay” by the team, contained hundreds of millimeters -sized, dark gray circle. Some of them were longer as long as the elliptical shapes, while others owned the crowded edges, which probably represent the pieces of broken circle. Even in some fields there were small pin holes! Which of the geology can produce these strange forms?
This is not the first time that weird sectors have been seen on Mars. In 2004, Mars’s Explosion Rover opportunities saw the so -called “Martin Blueri” in the Meridian Planum, and since then, curiosity Rover has witnessed sproses in the Elknev Bay stones in Gal Craater. A few months ago, the perseverance also spied the structure like popcorn in the exposed sword stones exposed in the Jeizro Certain Channel, Nuretwa Wales. In each case, the jurisdictions were interpreted as a connection, the features that are formed by interacting with groundwater through the spaces in the rock. However, not all such fields are formed. They also form on the ground through the rapid cooling of droplets of molten rocks created in the eruption, for example, or through the contraction of rocks through the vapor vapor.
Each of these mechanisms will have a lot of different implications for the evolution of these rocks, so the team is trying hard to determine their context and origin. St. Paul Bay, however, was a float rock-a term that geologists used to explain something that is not a place. The team is now working to connect the Asfirol -rich structure in St. Paul Bay to the wider strategies in the witch Hazel Hill, and preliminary observations have provided tantalizing indicators that it is identified by the team with a dark tin layered. Keeping these features in geographical context will be important to understand their origin, and to determine their importance for the geological history of Jeizro Creator Rum!
