by Frank Landymore at MSN
Last month, NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted an mysterious noodle-like object on Mars.
Appearing to be some sort of messy bundle of string, the object was first captured by the Mars rover’s camera on July 12 before mysteriously vanishing just four days later.
NASA was adamant that the stringy object was terrestrial in origin and not some Martian’s spilt ramen, speculating that it’s likely “a piece of cord from the parachute or from the landing system that lowers the [Perseverance] rover to the ground.”
And now, as it turns out, the space agency wasn’t that far off. In a statement on Monday, NASA declared that the unknown object is nothing but a piece of Dacron netting, putting this Mars mystery to bed.
Dacron is a polyester fiber used as netting in thermal blankets, and while it may look unrecognizable now, that’s because it “appears to have undergone significant unraveling/shredding, suggesting that it was subjected to strong forces,” according to NASA…
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