The stone is definitely a standout, with its white color contrasting sharply with Mars red dirt.
What makes it even odder are the black stripes that cover much of its surface.
Earths Freya Castle, however, is far larger than the one on Mars.
What’s black, white, but not red all over? This Martian rock.© NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Some people online gave it the more obvious nickname zebra rock, as NASA pointed out.
On Threads, people started tossing around theories.
As it turns out, that theory might actually be correct.
Luckily, Perseverance is slowly climbing the crater rim, so finding other, similar stones is a possibility.
The Mars Sample Return mission has run into logistical problems.
In April, NASA asked for help inrevising the mission planas the costs and complexity were deemed too high.
In July, for instance, the rover found arock patterned after a different African animal.
The leopard spots in the rock could be evidence of microbial life at some point in Mars past.
Guess you could say Freya Castle has become a real rock star.
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