Almost after 15 months of landing in Jezero Crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has started hunting for microorganism life on the red planet. Like the Mangalyaan Mars artificial satellite, the Perseverance Mars Rover seemed desperate to find some kind of life and within that timespan it spotted different kinds of rocks or grains.  

Well, they did notice one more thing which appeared unclear but interesting, however it not life. NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has found trash on the Mars. While looking for hints of microbial Martian life during its regular scheduled inspections of Mars’ surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted landing detritus caught in a jagged rock. The piece of trash that the rover found was a thermal material that the space agency used as a shield to protect the Perseverance spacecraft from extreme temperatures because it travelled to Mars and plunged through the Martian atmosphere.

A tweet from the team of NASA engineers handling the Perseverance rover account states, “My team has spotted something unexpected: It’s a piece of a thermal blanket that they think could have come from my descent stage, the rocket-powered jet pack that set me down on landing day back in 2021.”

An extremely pertinent question is that how this piece of foil-like detritus found its way to the region where it was absolutely found. Well, it was exactly two kilometres away from wherever the landing gear of the Perseverance mission crashed on Mars.

'Did this piece land here after that, or was it blown here by the wind?' the space agency speculated. 

The Mars Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars' surface on February 2021. On its way down, the spacecraft holding the rover ditched a number of instruments and objects, along with a heat shield, a supersonic parachute and a rocket-powered sky crane that helped the rover to reach the ground. A part of its payload that got ditched was resulted in crash landing on the Martian surface.

Though it is difficult to come across to an answer to the question, how the thermal blanket would have made it to that specific spot on Mars. But NASA is likely to be concerned about the humanity’s impact on space, even after multiple warnings we have been littering old rocket and spacecraft parts in orbit and on other planets. NASA has been focusing on the precautions that need to be taken in order to not disturb the nature of other planets.  

The Perseverance Rover is currently set to enter into the foremost necessary section of its mission. The rover is ready to explore the dried-up stream delta in the Jezero Crater. NASA’s planetary scientists suspect this space was crammed with water concerning three billion years ago, and if there’s any spot on Mars where they may have the remotest chance of signs of microscopic life, past or present, this is the one.