NASA accidentally broke a rock on Mars and what they discovered amazed them: there are still many questions to be answered

Exploration on Mars is one of the most important space projects that exist, and the red planet has been the object of study for many decades and we still have hundreds of unresolved doubts and mysteries.

Now, what was initially an accident has become the gateway to a whole new investigation full of unanswered questions, and that is that Not even the most senior scientists and experts on Mars could have anticipated the discovery made by mistake by the Curiosity spacecraft.

The Curiosity robot is a space rover that has been exploring Mars for more than 10 years, and it was during one of its walks on the Martian planet that saccidentally broke a rock when passing over it. Upon seeing the cameras, the mission scientists were perplexed since Inside the rock a yellowish substance was found that they did not know what it was.

This finding has caused knowledge of the geology of the red planet is called into questionat the same time that many doubts have arisen, since after the analyzes carried out on said rock and its interior, the substance was found to be pure sulfur.

This discovery is one of the most surprising and interesting to date, and as the scientist responsible for the mission, Ashwin Vasavada, explains: “Finding a field of pure sulfur stones It’s like coming across an oasis in the desert. “It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it.”

Although it is not the first time that sulfur has been detected on Mars, Finding it in its purest form is indeed a novelty.and a great unknown, since pure sulfur is usually associated with volcanic activities or similar and on said planet there is no evidence of these phenomena, so scientists don’t know what to think.

“We’ve gathered a ton of data and now we have a fun puzzle to solve,” Vasavada said in a statement. And although the discovery was made a few months ago, and NASA is focusing a large part of its resources on investigating this case, For now, the discovery of this pure sulfur remains a great unknown.

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