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Strange sphere-studded rock on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover.​

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled.

Named "St. Pauls Bay" by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size dark gray spheres, some of which have tiny pinholes. Perseverance discovered this rock on March 11 on the rim of the Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed that the rover has been exploring since 2021 for signs of past microbial life. Scientists say determining the geological origins of this area's features could provide valuable insights into how rocks in the region evolved over billions of years.

Strange sphere-studded rock on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover

The rock has hundreds of spherules on it, some of which have tiny pinholes.

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An image from NASA's Mars Perseverance rover shows hundreds of spherical-shaped objects in a rock on the Jezero crater rim. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP)

 

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An image from NASA's Mars Perseverance rover shows hundreds of spherical-shaped objects in a rock on the Jezero crater rim. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP)

 

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Perseverance Sees Deimos in the Sky​

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover is perhaps the most sophisticated Martian explorer to date, It’s been exploring and investigating Jezero Crater since its arrival there in February 2021. This car-sized rover is hunting for signs of ancient microbial life while collecting rock samples for future return to Earth. It carried along the Ingenuity helicopter—the first powered aircraft to fly on another world—and instruments to analyse and study the Martian environment. As Perseverance traverses the rusty terrain, its high-resolution cameras and microphones capture unprecedented views and sounds.

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An image from NASA's Mars Perseverance rover shows hundreds of spherical-shaped objects in a rock on the Jezero crater rim. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP)

Looks like ferricrete nodules, iron rich nodules that have been cemented together.

 

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Perseverance Photobombed by a Passing Dust Devil​

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. The area is thought to have once been a lake bed that held water billions of years ago, making it a prime location to study the planet’s geological history. Equipped with advanced instruments, Perseverance is tasked with analyzing Martian rocks, soil, and the atmosphere of the red planet. It’s also collecting rock samples for a future collect and return mission to bring them back to Earth for analysis.

Perseverance Photobombed by a Passing Dust Devil

On May 10th, while striking a selfie to mark its 1,500th day on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover got an unexpected guest star—a towering dust devil swirling in the distance photobombed the shot. The rover was on Witch Hazel Hill, an area on the rim of Jezero Crater that it has been exploring for...

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Perseverance Takes a new Panoramic Image of Mars on a Clear Day

On May 26th, 2025, the skies were clear on Mars above the Jezero Crater, where the Perseverance rover is exploring the planet's past. The rover's imaging team took advantage of these conditions to capture the 360-degree panoramic photo shown above, which was stitched together from 96 images taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z camera. The photo shows a location called "Falbreen," which shows the rover's tracks (right side) reaching into the far distance towards its previous stop - a rock outcropping named "Kenmore." Also visible are rocks and a sand ripple strewn with hills in the distance that are up to 65 km (40 mi) away.​

Perseverance Takes a new Panoramic Image of Mars on a Clear Day

‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the latest high-resolution panorama by NASA's Perseverance rover, taken on a particularly clear day.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Is About To Finish A Marathon​

NASA's Perseverance was at a location named “Lac de Charmes" (Lake of Charms) when it captured its latest self-portrait. Lake of Charmes, or Lake Charmes, is a reservoir in France. It's a nickname, based on the fact that the rover is exploring an ancient paleolake. By informal convention, the rover team names locations and features by themes, and lakes and waterways are the theme.

The Lac de Charmes region sits just to the west of Jezero Crater's rim. The area contains some of the most scientifically interesting features Perseverance has explored. It may contain the oldest rocks the rover will encounter, and also contains megabreccia. Megabreccia are massive fragments of rock, and these ones were launched into the air by an ancient massive meteorite impact on Isidis Planitia 3.9 billion years ago.

NASA's Perseverance Rover Is About To Finish A Marathon

Perseverance has travelled almost 26 miles, or 42 km. That's just shy of a marathon, which is 26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers. Along the way, it's abraded and studied 62 rocks and collected 27 rock cores. And it's not done yet.

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