Medicine & TechnologyA Martian 'Black Beauty' meteorite has been discovered with evidence of a large asteroid collision on Mars, which might change the timeframe for when the red planet was habitable.
After cleaning stones obstructing its gear, NASA's Perseverance gathers a piece of ancient Martian rock with 'drill and abrasion markings' and resembles a shocked face.
The recent findings from the sample taken in the Gale Crater on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover showed that they were enriched in carbon isotopes, which is a sign of life on Earth.
If the weather permits, a close encounter of the Moon and Mars is expected this Saturday, which will be joined by other planets including Venus, Mercury, and Saturn.
Curtin University revealed that the asteroid collisions responsible for numerous impact craters on the Martian surface were very consistent over the past 600 million years.
The crater detection algorithm "automatically counts the visible impact craters" from a high-resolution image, a planetary research team from the United States, Australia, France, and Côte d'Ivoire has analyzed the formation of over 500 massive impact craters on Mars.
NASA team operating the Perseverance rover awaits the results of how the clean-up went after the rover was unable to shut close the lid after some pebbles got stuck on its throat while collecting its sixth Red Planet rock sample late last month.