Where did it come from, where did it go?
To be clear, the object is likely Earthly in origin. While NASA has yet to confirm, a spokesperson for the mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that "we have been discussing where it's from, but there's been speculation that it's a piece of cord from the parachute or from the landing system that lowers the rover to the ground."Space Trash
The location where the string showed up is some ways off from Perseverance's landing spot in the Jezero Crater, an ancient delta that experts believe was once covered in water.that it may have been blown there by the Martian wind. It's likely we'll see more of NASA's trash left behind on the Martian surface. In April, for instance, PerseveranceThen, in June, the roverthat "my team has spotted something unexpected," which turned out to be a "piece of a thermal blanket that they think may have come from my descent stage."
In short, space trash isn't just polluting Earth's orbit — you can now even find discarded debris on the surface of other planets.
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