NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover spots a field of peculiar blue boulders on Mount Washburn in the Jezero Crater.
This 28 mile-wide site is theorized to have been formed after an asteroid impacted the region some 3.7 billion years ago, and has been explored for more than three years by Perseverance. Mount Washburn was named after a mountain in Wyoming and this image was acquired by the rover’s SuperCam and Mastcam-Z instruments. The light-toned boulder that you see with dark speckles near the center of the mosaic has been named “Atoko Point” after a feature in the eastern Grand Canyon.
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Some Perseverance scientists speculate the minerals that make up Atoko Point were produced in a subsurface body of magma that is possibly exposed now on the crater rim,” said the NASA Perseverance Mission Team.
