Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. This image was acquired on July 13, 2024 at the local mean solar time of 13:53:4.If Olaf, a sweet and sensitive snowman from the Disney movie Frozen, had ancestors on other planets, could this perhaps be a dusty relative?If you look closely, as we did here at Space.
This little guy might have more of a dry and dusty composition, unlike Olaf's fluffy and bright white physique, but, if you use your imagination, it could almost present itself as posing a very important question to Perseverance:"Do you want to build a snowman?", where it landed back on February 18, 2021, but has now started its journey to ascend the crater and move into a new location.
Still, it can't hurt to take a moment to enjoy what we can spot in the NASA rover's new image. Attaching sentimental shapes to rocks on Mars is quite the same thing as laying on the grass and identifying animals in the clouds overhead. to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at:
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