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NASA Loses a Pet Rock! And They’ve Been Traveling With It For Years
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Mars is no doubt a lonely place to be, but for more than a year NASA’s Perseverance rover has had a little pal traveling with it. This is the rock that has been stuck rolling around in the wheel of the rover 427 sols or day on Mars.
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Mars is no doubt a lonely place to be, but for more than a year, NASA's Perseverance
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rover has had a little pal traveling with it.
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This is the rock that has been stuck rolling around in the wheel of the rover for 427 sols
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or days on Mars, traveling always with the rover over miles and miles of the Martian
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surface.
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The rock was first discovered by the SuperCam team back in February last year.
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They weren't sure how it made its way in there, but it didn't seem like it was going
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to go anywhere, rolling around in the wheels as Perseverance wheeled around Mars.
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NASA experts say the rock likely wasn't doing any damage, but they were curious how it was
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hanging on.
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Though a big part of that is likely because Perseverance doesn't really move that fast
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or that far at a given time.
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In fact, since the rock hopped on for a ride, the rover has only traveled around 6.2 miles.
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However, some jokingly speculate that Perseverance simply wanted the companionship, which leads
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us to believe there might be some turbulent social dynamics on Mars, and that the Ingenuity
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Mars Helicopter simply wasn't very good company.
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