‘Freya Castle’ - A Rock Like No other Discovered on the Martian Planet of Rocks

A couple of weeks ago Perseverance rover was trundling around the Jezero cater when sharp eyed scientists spotted something interesting in the distance on the low rez hazcam image , their curiosity piqued Percy headed over to take a closer look and discovered a rock unique not only to its surrounding rocks but to anything we've seen in the decades of rover exploration , scientists named the black and white Zebra striped rock ‘Freya Castle’ even though it looks nothing like a Castle or a Freya .... Scientists !

The science team thinks that this rock has a texture unlike any seen in Jezero Crater before, and perhaps all of Mars. Our knowledge of its chemical composition is limited, but early interpretations are that igneous and/or metamorphic processes could have created its stripes. Since Freya Castle is a loose stone that is clearly different from the underlying bedrock, it has likely arrived here from someplace else, perhaps having rolled downhill from a source higher up. This possibility has us excited, and we hope that as we continue to drive uphill, Perseverance will encounter an outcrop of this new rock type so that more detailed measurements can be acquired.
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There's a mystery as to where the rock came from , all I can say is it's life Jim but not as we know it.

Closer look , pretty sure it's hovering.

a reply to: gortex

Nice rock.

Great thread, cheers for this