At this moment, the red Mars and our Earth distance of about 200 million kilometers, the current Mars surface of Mars there are three rovers while driving while exploring, I believe many people know, one is China's Zhu Rong Mars rover, one is the United States Curiosity rover, and one is the United States Perseverance rover.
Recently, because of the upgrading of driving technology, the Perseverance rover opened the "fast run" mode, driving 320 meters in one day, creating the farthest distance on Mars, and it took only a few days to return to the original landing site from the mission position hundreds of meters away, and is now slowing down near the landing site.
Perseverance really photographed "man-made objects"
And on February 24, someone found a special photo in the Mars photo gallery transmitted by the Perseverance rover, and the most special thing about this photo was that it showed a white cylindrical "artificial object" with a very regular round hole in the middle, lying on the yellow surface of Mars, very conspicuous.
What is more interesting is that this photo also shows the wheel print of the Perseverance, there are obvious wheel prints in the lower right corner, there are also multiple wheel prints in the middle of the left, and there are also wheel prints in the upper part of the photo, which shows that the Perseverance has been wandering here for a long time.
From the photo, the structure of this white cylindrical object is too detailed, much like a very delicate mechanical part, if it is not a man-made object, I believe many people do not believe it, because it is different in nature from any strange object found before, and people have to believe that it is "artificial".
Such a magical photo makes people feel very incredible, and the discoverers also think that it is "artificial", suggesting that the Red Planet may have once appeared in human civilization, and this "artificial object" may be an artifact of ancient civilization, of course, "artificial object" may also be part of an alien flying saucer.
In fact, the cylindrical "man-made object" is not something else, but really an artificial object from the human hand, which has been confirmed by NASA.
How did the cylindrical man-made object come about?
NASA's Perseverance team said the cylindrical artifact was the perseverance rover that abandoned a wear drill in July 2021, that is, 150 days after landing on Mars, just before Perseverance arrived at the location of the first mission site, before taking the first Mars sample.
It is understood that this special drill was installed before the launch of the Perseverance rover, that is to say, it was installed on Earth, mainly to close the drill bit and protect the interior, but in order to keep the Mars sample clean and clear, the Perseverance rover lost the original drill bit and reinstalled the new drill.
Some netizens slammed NASA for casually littering on Mars, saying that humans have not yet landed on Mars, Martian colonization has not yet begun, The Mars rover has already littered on the surface of Mars, then in a few decades, Mars will become a "robot graveyard", full of abandoned machine debris.
There are multiple rover wrecks on Mars
The Mars Pathfinder rover landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, and took several incredible photos of Mars, showing unique river features, proving the flooding of ancient Mars, mars Pathfinder also made 8.5 million measurements of temperature and wind speed, unfortunately, more than two months later, Mars Pathfinder suddenly lost contact.
The Spirit rover landed in Gushev Crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars on January 4, 2004, and Courage took hundreds of thousands of photos, including photos of Earth taken from Mars, in 2006, the spirit's right front wheel failed, in May 2009, the wheel fell into soft soil and could not move, and after March 22, 2011, it lost contact permanently.
Opportunity, a sister version of Spirit, landed on the surface of Mars on January 25, 2004, giving humans a new perspective, but in June 2018, there was a dust storm on the surface of Mars that swept across the world, the sky became dark, the solar panels were all covered with dust, and finally Opportunity fell silent.
At last
Perseverance has safely explored the surface of Mars for 361 Martian days, traveled 4.38 kilometers, successfully completed the first exploration mission, collected 7 Mars samples, and in recent Mars days, returned to the original landing site from the mission site at a very fast speed, ready to sail towards the delta ruins.
Delta ruins are located in the northwest direction of Jezero Crater, made of alluvial mud carried by rivers, and the formation principle of the Yangtze River Delta and Zhujiang Delta on the mainland is the same, so the delta ruins are the most resource-rich areas on Mars, if there are microorganisms on Mars, it will definitely choose the delta region to reproduce. Interesting and informative scientific content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration