Following this, the rover used its abrasion tool to clean the rock of dust and coatings for detailed scientific interrogation, and the team was wowed by the intriguing rock texture, which ...

In one of its latest activities, Perseverance captured a detailed nighttime mosaic image of an abrasion patch on a rock formation named “Malgosa Crest” within the “Serpentine Rapids” area.

The movement of the glacier pulls these frozen rocks away. Abrasion – rocks trapped in the glacier rub against the valley floor wearing it away like sandpaper. Eroded material, such as rock ...