NASA Identified the Strange Tangled Object Found on Mars

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When a spacecraft dramatically parachutes down to a distant world, debris will inevitably litter the landing site. NASA has documented the diverse debris scattered by the 2021 landing of its high-tech Perseverance rover, including a strange-looking ball of tangled, "spaghetti"-like material, which the space agency believes they've identified.

NASA suspects the tangled detritus — which stirred intrigue on the internet — is a piece of netting (called "Dacron netting") that is used in thermal blankets to protect the spacecraft from extreme temperatures and conditions, like when plunging through the Martian atmosphere at some 12,000 mph.
NASA identified the strange tangled object found on Mars
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We’ve already begun littering on new planets. What a terrible road mark for human kind lol. Our achievements are great but our garbage is seemingly never far behind.

Seal_pup
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It least that's what NASA is telling us it is.

patrickwall
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Past primitive life? What about current primitive life? Why not test for that? Oh wait, NASA already did that and obtained a positive result.

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The only thing NASA sent to space was ya'll imagination

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Ok, show us a example of it on the rover before it fell off. I'll wait

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