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The endurance of NASA conquered this picture of a strange rock on August 5, 2025. | Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ASU
The endurance of NASA has stumbled on the surface of Mars over a curious, volcanic stone, which looks more like a weathered combat helmet.
Captured by the rover Mastcam-Z instrument On August 5, 2025, the rock shows a pointed peak and a knotty texture that reminds a picture of armor centuries ago. To EarthSimilar knot textures can form through chemical weathering, mineral failures or even volcanic processes. Endurance found a similar rock in March 2025.
And they are these spholes that fascinated scientists. “This Hat-shaped rock consists of balls. The target name of this rock is horneflya and it is due to its hat form (which for me looks that I generally match the shape of the pyramid that we often see in wind eroded swimmer blocks on the surface of Mars, and more because it has achieved almost full labwning-jagel-jagel-jagel Spocus, a spokus, a spokus, a spokus, a spokus, a spokus, a spok, a spok, a spokus, a spokus, a spocus, a spokus, a spokus, a spokus, a spokus, a spokus, a spokus, a spok, a spok, a spok that in one Spreverance-Labor-Labor Laboratory Laboratory Labora, a bacon, a spokes that is the racing laboratory laboratory.
Scientists believe that in some rocks that can be seen on Mars, these balls form when groundwater drove through pores in sediment stones. But they are not sure whether they have all formed in this way; The Perseverance science team will have its work for the analysis of more stones to search for answers to this secret of Marsgeology and other burning red planets.
The Mastcam-Z instrument, a few zoom-capable cameras on the neck-like mast of Persevere, enables scientists to record high-resolution stereovers and to recognize unusual features such as these cuddly “helmet”.
Endurance has discovered a growing gallery of strange rock shapes, from Donut-like meteorites To Avocado-like stones. These types of images are examples of a phenomenon known as Pareidoly, which describes the tendency of the human brain, otherwise random visual data to impose a well -known pattern – whether this is a face in the clouds, a rabbit in the moon or a medieval helmet on the marten surface.
The helmet rock is currently a convincing snapshot of Mars history. Functions like this help scientists to put it together Red planetThe environmental history that shows how wind, water and internal processes may have shaped the landscape for over billion years.
Endurance is currently researching the northern edge of the Jezero crater after successfully completing a challenging ascent to the comb, which is known as known.Lookout Hill“At the end of last year.
