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 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has made yet another unusual discovery on Mars, spotting greenish spots inside a rock. The mysterious discovery was made by the rover's SHERLOC WATSON camera that took a ...

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 ...

Different types of erosion include hydraulic action where the force of the wave traps air into the rock and breaks it apart. There is also abrasion which is the action of pebbles grinding against ...