A nicely shaped pebble, sitting close to the rover, imaged on sol 1436 (March 5, 2025), by one of the rover's front Hazard avoidance cameras.
It would look cool on my desk as a paperweight :)
NASA/JPL-Caltech
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
59 points (100.0% liked)
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
1645 readers
35 users here now
On the plains of Jezero, the secrets of Mars' past await us! Follow for the latest news, updates, pretty pics, and community discussion on NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's most ambitious mission to Mars!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I hereby grant you this rock.
Very gracious. Many thanks :)
So now that we've been here for two solid years - that's four whole years back on Earth! - after we've driven across the floor and over the delta and into the valley and all the way up the rim - NOW you decide you want a pet rock? After His Lordship has decided that he's going to tariff anything Martian?
sighs He's always like this with the shiny ones. He thinks it might be desert varnish. You think it's desert varnish, don't you? Do you know what'll happen if we actually do find any of that stuff? The handling procedures. The import licenses. The biohazard protocols! Endless arguments over G-band spectroscopy from the damn scientists, they'll be at it for years. How are you going to feel if your small rock happens to be the first with active biological entities? Come on, that's the last thing we want.
I can't take you anywhere, Paul.
You know me so well ;)