Space Exploration

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient Mars Impacts

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July 15, 2026 58 views
Original source: NASA

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has uncovered evidence that a 245-foot-thick (75-meter-thick) stack of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was built by repeated asteroid impacts. Referred to as the “Broom Point member” by the rover’s science team, this sequence of layered bedrock is likely more ...