Satellite observations showed alternating stripes of light and dark rocks in the area. In late March, Patience excavated one of the layers of light colour and collected samples. In the process, they discovered a strange rock named “St. Paul’s Bay.”
According to the Patience Team, St. Paul’s Bay is a rock of a “float” or a rock that should not exist in this place. However, it remains unclear what created this rock formation on Mars and how it was located in the area. The rock appears to be made up of small, round, dark gray stones, each of which is several hundred millimeters in size. These small round stones have different shapes. It is oval, with sharp edges, some with small holes.
These are possible The sphere is concrete– Formation created by groundwater moving through the pores of rocks. This suggests that Mars may have once had abundant liquid water. However, on Earth, these spheres are also created when molten rocks cool rapidly, for example, after a volcanic eruption. The Perseverance Science team is investigating the origins of the small round stones that make up St. Paul’s Bay. They may be derived from dark-colored stripes of rock formations observed nearby.
