The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) led a mission to learn about life on other planets. With the aim of addressing Mars and investigate the surface of this place, the agency sent a helicopter along with a Perseverance rover, a robotic vehicle designed for the exploration of these inhospitable places.
With cutting-edge technology and a very specific mission, NASA began to monitor these vehicles in order to know what state the surface of Mars is in and thus collect evidence for future research on this planet.
Having made all the artillery available for this investigation, the US agency began to collect results from this trip and observed, through photographs taken by the helicopter, that there were remains of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars.
These images, captured in 2022, perplexed NASA researchers, who fulfilled the mission of setting the helicopter’s camera so that it can move through places where the helicopter could not do so. Perserverance rover.
Once the snapshots reached the hands of NASA researchers, it was seen how the remains of a spacecraft were scattered across the surface of the red planet. As if it were a decomposing object, it had severe damage to its sides, indicating that it had a collision or fell unexpectedly on this planet.
White in color, with reddish edges – due to friction with the surface of Mars – this object detached from a spacecraft and caused some astonishment in the researchers, who took a sample of this space vehicle for future research.
Labeled as from “another world,” NASA took note of this landslide located on the surface of Mars and planned other visits in the future in order to continue collecting data and further clarify the situation.
“They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but so is an infinite amount of engineering knowledge.”Ian Clark, an engineer who worked on the Perseverance rover system, explained to The New York Times.
Along the same lines, the scientist added that the Mars expedition included a series of top-quality elements to obtain astonishing results, which were visible to the entire world and gave a very high level of credibility to NASA: “We use all our best models and our best analysis tools”.
The remains of the spacecraft’s rear shell will be used for another NASA adventure on Mars. The intention, on the next trip, will be to bring rocks and soil from this planet in order to have a more detailed diagnosis of why this ship arrived at the reddish surface. Although the mission is in an initial phase, scientists from the US agency are preparing heavy artillery to carry, according to Clark, “a small rocket” that can further deepen the results and also open other paths to enter the life of this planet.