NASA's Perseverance Rover Accidentally Draws Gigantic Penis On Mars

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Things can get lonely on Mars. NASA's four-wheeled robot has been roaming the Red Planet for more than three years, trekking across the harsh terrain on its own after losing its pal Ingenuity . But perhaps the Martian rover has found a way to connect with us from 140 million miles away. Because let's face it, we all love a good old fashioned penis joke.

The Perseverance rover recently took an unfortunate shortcut on Mars, with its route tracing the outline of a huge Martian sausage. NASA teams released an image of the map of an ancient river channel on Mars, superimposed with the path traveled by the robot between January 21 and June 11. The result is a giant penis drawn across the Martian sands. Is it a lucky coincidence or a stroke of genius for rapport building? You decide.

The big Martian penis aside, NASA's Mars rover reached an area nicknamed Bright Angel on June 9 to search for evidence of carbonate and olivine deposits along the inside of Jezero Crater's rim. The area features rocky light-toned outcrops that may have been exposed by river erosion or sediments that filled the channel, according to NASA.

Perseverance had trouble reaching Bright Angel due to the rough terrain. "We started paralleling the channel in late January and were making pretty good progress, but then the boulders became bigger and more numerous," Evan Graser, Perseverance's deputy strategic route planner lead, said in a statement. "What had been drives averaging over a hundred meters per Martian day went down to only tens of meters. It was frustrating."

As Perseverance encountered more large boulders along the way, the rover's auto-navigation system, or AutoNav, would often stop after deciding the route was not to its liking. The mission's navigation team, however, found a shortcut through the ancient river channel.

"We had been eyeing the river channel just to the north as we went, hoping to find a section where the dunes were small and far enough apart for a rover to pass between — because dunes have been known to eat Mars rovers," Graser said. "Perseverance also needed an entrance ramp we could safely travel down. When the imagery showed both, we made a beeline for it."

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