The Red Planet Has a New Zen Garden After Mars Rover Leaves Peaceful Tracks

May 10, 2022 journo

The Red Planet just got even more peaceful, as the Mars rover made an accidental Zen garden.

NASA’s Perseverance rover left some picturesque track marks around a rock—creating a scene resembling a meditation landscape in Japan.

Zen gardens usually feature carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees, and bushes, and use gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water.

They are intended to imitate the essence of nature, not its actual appearance, and to serve as an aid for meditation.

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What is NASA’s latest rover actually up to there on the Red Planet? Its mission is to look for signs of past microbial life, cache rock and soil samples, and prepare for future human exploration.

That’s exciting indeed—and GNN will continue to update you with its latest positive developments.

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