The Enigma of Zebra Rock: update from #LPSC2025

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2014.pdf

#Mars

📷 https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/daniel-pomarede-3/

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Zebra Rock, a mysterious rock with black and white stripes, captured by Perseverance in Stereo3D

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye

Calibrated images by the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State Univ., Sol 1268, Sep. 13, 2024

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Yay! The Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University has published my Zebra Rock stuff in their gallery!

https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/daniel-pomarede-3 #Mars

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#Mars #FlashbackFriday

Encounter with Zebra Rock, a.k.a "Freya Castle", Sep. 12, 2024. Credit Navcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Credit Mastcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU, with a recently released natural color image processing by the Mastcam-Z Downlink team at Arizona State University.

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Navcam views captured by Perseverance yesterday. Loads of rocks scattered here and there, no signs of Zebra Rock lookalikes yet!

#Mars Oct. 8, 2024
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Boudinage 🇫🇷

"Freya Castle looks like a metamorphic rock containing feldspar or other white-ish minerals arranged in something called boudinage. That word stems from French: a chain-link sausage-like structure."

Jeffrey Kargel, Planetary Science Institute

https://universetoday.com/168765/perseverance-finds-a-strange-black-and-white-striped-rock-on-mars/

Credits images:
✅ Navcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech
✅ Mastcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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NASA's Perseverance Rover has made an exciting new discovery on Mars! A striking black-and-white striped rock, nicknamed "Freya Castle," has been found in the Jezero Crater. This unique find has sparked curiosity about the planet’s geological history and could offer new insights into Mars' volcanic past.

@goodnews

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https://thedebrief.org/nasas-perseverance-rover-makes-unprecedented-discovery-of-bizarre-freya-castle-rock-on-mars/

"While driving across unremarkable pebbly terrain, beady-eyed team members spotted a cobble in the distance with hints of an unusual texture in low resolution Navcam images..."

Discovery of Freya Castle a.k.a Zebra Rock, the full story by Athanasios Klidaras: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/a-striped-surprise/

Credits images:
✅ Navcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech
✅ Mastcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Freya Castle

Yep, that's the name of the Martian mystery rock with black-and-white stripes, seen here in Stereo3D. It is 20 cm across and the team scientists have enjoyed reading your theories on its origin!

More insights by Athanasios Klidaras in this blog:
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/a-striped-surprise/

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