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Nottingham Post
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Dean Murray & Steven Smith

'Swiss cheese' rock photographed by NASA on Mars

Scientists have spotted a rock on Mars that looks like Swiss cheese. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped a hollowed-out boulder in Jezero Crater on June 26.

It follows the sighting of what the space agency described as a "doughnut-shaped" rock on June 22. Perseverance used its Mastcam-Z instrument to photograph the latest unusual discovery. Its mission is to help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

NASA explain: "Wind can erode all sorts of strange shapes by sandblasting rock surfaces over the course of eons."

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