What’s Happening
Here’s the thing: Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.
Student at Purdue University NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is rn trekking towards exciting new terrain. After roughly four months of climbing up and over the rim of Jezero crater, the rover is taking a charming tour of the plains just beyond the western crater rim, fittingly named “Lac de Charmes. (shocking, we know)
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” Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast. Perseverance acquired this image looking east across the rim heading towards “Lac de Charmes” on Dec.
Why This Matters
7, 2025 — Sol 1706, or Martian day 1,706 of the Mars 2020 mission — at the local mean solar time of 13:38:46. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Written , Ph. ” This area just beyond Jezero’s rim will be the prime place to search for pre-Jezero ancient bedrock and Jezero impactites — rocks produced or affected event that created Jezero crater.
This could have implications for future research in this area.
Key Takeaways
- The formation of a complex crater like Jezero is, well… complex.
- This process happens insanely fast, fracturing the impacted rock and even melting some of the target material.
The Bottom Line
Scientists who study impact craters like to split the formation process into three stages: contact & compression (when the impactor hits), excavation (when materials are thrown out of the crater), and modification (when gravity causes everything to collapse). This process happens insanely fast, fracturing the impacted rock and even melting some of the target material.
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