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Wreckage on Mars is not a flying saucer — NASA explains

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WASHINGTON - New images released by NASA reveal what looks like a crashed flying saucer on the planet Mars belonging to aliens.

And while it may appear this way, the space agency says that’s not the case. According to NASA, the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars, along with a cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space during its descent toward the Martian surface on February 18."The aeroshell, which protected the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter during its plunge through the Martian atmosphere a little over a year ago, bears a pretty strong resemblance to the flying saucers of science fiction," Al Chen, a Mars 2020 Perseverance lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told FOX TV Stations Group. "But this time, it’s our human made spacecraft that are the ‘aliens’ visiting another world and instead of fiction, it’s fact.

The images are everything we could have hoped for – they’re high resolution, clear, and will provide a wealth of engineering data to pour over to help us continue to improve our ability to land on Mars.

Stepping back, it’s awe-inspiring, even for us, to think that these images were taken by the first helicopter ever flown on another planet." What resulted were 10 detailed, aerial color images taken earlier this month during Ingenuity’s Flight 26.

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