Nasa’s Perseverance rover has found olivine particles on the surface of Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance rover passed by and examined Mars face It’s been quite a while, and a new study based on the data it has collected has left scientists astounded. The latest discovery reveals that the Red planet also has some green in it. Researchers from Purdue University analyzed data from the detector that found olivine particles on the surface of Mars. Olivin is a slightly less spectacular version of the commonly known gem peridot on earth. And so it leads to some blue zones on the Martian surface.
The olivine seeds are abundantly available on The earth that they comprise more than half of the upper mantle. It is even responsible for giving the beaches of Hawaii a deep blue color, and it has a similar effect on Mars. When Perseverance first arrived at Jezero Crater on Mars, researchers hoped to find many red-colored minerals, but it shared a most unexpected discovery showing that Mars there is liquid country, air, and even a magnetic field similar to that of Earth. While the crater is believed to have sedimentary rock, they actually found some kind of volcanic rock instead. Also, most of these rocks are made from large grains of olivine.
The rover is currently examining samples that are about 4 billion years old and in fairly pristine condition.
Researchers are now studying the origins of these rocks to understand the early conditions of the planet Mars and whether they once supported life. The findings have been published in multiple papers in the journal Science and Science Advances.
Meanwhile, Nasa is planning to send two more helicopters to return Martian rock and dust to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return Program. NASA is working on this Mars mission in partnership with the European Space Agency. If the mission goes well, the Martian rock will be the first scientific specimen ever brought back from another planet. “We’re confident we can count on Perseverance to bring the samples back, and we’ve added the helicopter as a backup vehicle,” said Jeff Gramling, director of NASA’s Mars sample return program. .
