Mars, NASA and Perseverance Rover
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In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.
NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to potentially interstellar origins. “This rock was identified as a target of interest,” the space agency wrote in a recent blog post detailing the potentially intergalactic gravelstone.
The unusual comet—which is to pass Earth again in the coming weeks—is only the third known object to visit us from outside the solar system.
Some of the fastest meteors will streak across the sky on the night of Nov. 17, as the Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak. Here's how to catch the show in Tennessee.