Fragment of thermal blanket between crater stone crevices as an example▶ Click here for a larger view
An ‘unexpected’ scene was captured in which a piece of aluminum foil that fell off while the US Mars rover ‘Perseverance’ landed on the ‘Yejero Crater’ presumed to be an ancient delta in February last year was caught like garbage between stones. it was revealed
This photograph is accepted as a symbolic scene that raises awareness that human-made garbage is already polluting the planet, even though humans have not yet stepped foot in it.
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and foreign media, the Perseverance Operation Team released this photo on the 16th, saying, “Our team has discovered something unexpected” through a Twitter account that personifies the Perseverance ship and conveys the status of its activities.
The tweet said, “It appears to be part of a thermal blanket that has fallen off descent equipment, such as rocket-powered jetpacks, that have been put down during landing.”
Thermal blankets are used to cover the instrument and rover for temperature control purposes.
Relevant Tweets from Rover Operations Team In another tweet that followed, the rover operation team said, “The descent equipment crashed about 2 km away, and it was surprising to find fragments of a thermal blanket here.”
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) spokesperson Andrew Good said in an email interview with CNET that it was clear that the piece had fallen from the thermal blanket, but “it is less clear where it covered it and how it got here.”
This is not the first time debris from the Perseverance landing has been found.
On April 18, ‘Insanity’, which is active as a Mars helicopter, caught the remains of a parachute and conical protective cover that Perseverance removed during the descent process.
In this regard, the British Guardian said that the ‘Exosphere Treaty’, an international law on space exploration and use, mandates to avoid contamination of the exosphere, the moon, and other celestial bodies. pointed out that it is reviving.
Parachute and conical bottom cover debris used during perseverance landing▶ Click here for a larger view
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