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.