NASA's Perseverance rover discovered a mysterious boulder that stood out in a field of rocks while exploring a crater on Mars.
While exploring a crater on Mars that may give scientists insights into life that potentially once existed there,
. The rover had changed course along its route to avoid rough terrain when, traveling a short cut through a dune field, it reached a hill that scientists have dubbed Mount Washburn.The hill was covered with boulders, some of which said the size, shape and overall arrangement of minerals in Atoko Point, as well as the potential composition of the boulder on a chemical level, put the rock 'in a league of its own' in terms of Martian sediment, at least among those already known to scientists.Pyroxene and feldspar are minerals also found in the Earth's crust and on the moon, according to the U.S.
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