The Mars rover Perseverance has had a “stowaway” for 120 days. What is it?
4 min readJun 14, 2022
The rover, which weighs over a ton, has been carrying an extra load for four months. It is a stone which fell into one of its wheels. So far it has covered over 8.5 kilometers with Perseverance.
The Perseverance rover has been working on Mars since Feb. 18, 2021. For the first year, it collected six samples of Martian soil. These are…
