NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover: Intriguing New Images | JPL

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover: Intriguing New Images | JPL

Unidentified. Confirmation needed. One analysis so far: This is ". . . an extreme close-up" of ". . . very small and rather unusual concretion features. This [larger] one has been called 'Blackthorn Salt'."

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm, on February 24, 2022, Sol 3396 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, at 15:13:29 UTC.

Pareidolia. Dictionaries describe this term as a human tendency to see recognizable shapes in objects or data that are otherwise not familiar to us.

Learn more about pareidolia and Martian "space oddities:"

https://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/space-oddities/

Learn about NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover:

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/home

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Image Capture Date: Curiosity MSL - Sol 3397 - MAHLI 

Release Date: February 25, 2022

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