Sometimes I see something goofy, like a mysterious black object in a Perseverance rover photograph from Sunday.
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A humorous interpretation of the object, such as an ant or a plastic bag, was offered during a Reddit discussion of the image in a Mars-related group.
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Typically, they are only perceptible when the camera captures photographs of the sky or another flat radiometric surface.
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Early in October, NASA's Curiosity rover, which is investigating the Gale Crater in a separate region of Mars, captured a picture of a related sky "object."
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Members of the Perseverance camera team discussed the "odd small black speck" artifacts in reference to the rover's mast-mounted cameras in a blog post last year.
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Due to the lack of post-processing, we can still detect specks in the rovers' raw photographs.
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Perseverance has been on Mars since early 2021 and has seen oddball items like this spaghetti-like bundle of debris and a shiny piece of foil left behind from its landing operations.