NASA's Perseverance rover spies surprising piece of ripped thermal blanket on Mars

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover spotted a bit of trash on the Martian surface. The shiny litter should look familiar to Perseverance, as it appears to be a piece of thermal blanket from the rover's descent in early 2021. The thermal blanket was used to control temperature, and it was on Perseverance's rocket-powered jet pack that the rover used to control its landing on Mars. Thermal blankets are critical to any successful space mission. Thermal blankets...