NASA has disseminated the last findings of its Rover Perseverance during his expedition to the enigmatic Crater Jezero, in Mars. This robot, equipped with avant -garde technology to detect possible past microbial life traces, is currently examining Martian rocks with singular shapes. One of them is so strange that he received his own name and won a place in the general archive of the space agency.
The Persevarence found a dark gray rock with anomalous texture. St. Pauls Bay, as they named it from NASA, is a stone whose surface is composed of hundreds of gray spheres of millimeter size, many of them broken in its center. The stone fragment of Mars has an irremediable organic appearance capable of anxiously putting any typophobic.
Scientists call these formations “spherys”, and it is not the first time that similar structures are found. The Perseverance had already identified similar formations in the channel that leads to the Jezero crater, and the Rover Curiosity also detected similar patterns in the Gale crater, next to white points on the surface.
According to the first estimates of the POTthe spherules could have formed by the interaction of groundwater that once circulated through the pores of the rocks. Another possibility is that they have arisen due to the rapid cooling of fused rock drops during a volcanic eruption, or from the vaporized rock condensation after the impact of a meteorite.
According to data collected by the ESA and NASA probes, the reddish color of the Martian planet would depend on the ferrihydrite, an iron oxide that is formed in water -rich environments.
At the moment it is not possible to determine the causes of the texture full of bubbles and holes in the rock of the Jezero crater. In addition, research is complicated because St. Pauls Bay is a “floating object”, or in other words, which came from another part (reached the crater by a natural displacement).
Tripophobia is a reaction of repulsion or fear towards repetitive patterns of holes, packages or geometric figures. It is the reason why structures such as bee honeycombs, lotus seeds, corals, certain fungi or skin textures can be disturbing. Although it is not recognized in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5), the term has gained popularity on the Internet in recent years.
Mars, apparently, is not exempt from surfaces that could arouse tripophobia. This discovery of Perseverance demonstrates that the red planet is not a completely smooth desert. Some rocks have bubble patterns and cavities that intrigue both scientists and geology enthusiasts.
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