Noodle-like Mars object is actually trash from Perseverance landing - Business Insider
In a new blog, the space agency said that it suspects the debris is a piece of shredded Dacron netting from the entry, descent, and landing gear that landed Perseverance on the Martian surface. .When the rover landed on the red planet, its entry, descent, and landing hardware flew off to crash a safe distance away, scattering debris across the Martian surface. .
"Perseverance had the best-documented Mars landing in history, with cameras showing everything from parachute inflation to touchdown," Ian Clark, a former Perseverance systems engineer, who now leads the effort to haul Martian samples back to Earth at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement in April.