SAN FRANCISCO, iNews.id – A rock loaded with olivine minerals has been collected by NASA’s Perseverance explorer robot. The team tweeted, ‘A small piece Mars to take with me.’
The tiny piece is the third sample the rover has collected during its operation on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February and slowly glided across the floor of the 28-mile-wide Jezero crater.
“My latest sample comes from a rock loaded with greenish olivine minerals, and there are some ideas among my science team about how it got there. Hypotheses fly! The rules of science,” NASA said in a joke as quoted by the Daily Mail.
Unfortunately, there are no details about the hypothesis that NASA is referring to. But olivine is a magnesium iron silicate and makes up most of the Earth’s upper mantle. Rover was carrying 43 titanium tubes and when he found an interesting piece of rock he would load a sample into one of these tubes.
Editor: Dini Listiyani
