Perseverance Rover Stashes 8th Martian Rock Sample

Nasa's Perseverance Rover stashed its 8th rocket sample from the Martian surface, the rover's social media voice announced on Tuesday.

The Rover tweeted: "Stashing my latest rock core sample (#8!) and finishing up at this location. I’m packing up and making my way to the dry river delta. Off we go."

Early this week, the rover started its tour in the area that is called Mars' delta. Experts believe that this delta belongs to one of the Martian rivers.

Previously, scientists found evidence of water on Mars through the European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) that follows the ExoMars mission.

Experts who detected it in the Martian Valles Marineris said that the discovered water is most likely in form of ice.

Regarding the process of discovering the water, TGO is using a technology known as FREND which means targeting the hydrogen which is one of water’s components.

“FREND revealed an area with an unusually large amount of hydrogen in the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system: assuming the hydrogen is bound into water molecules, as much as 40% of the near-surface material in this region appears to be water,” the report highlighted.

The latest discovery made by TGO was not the only recent one about the Martian waters.