Mars Perseverance Sol 1460: WATSON Camera gif

 looks like desert varnish

Mars Perseverance Sol 1460: WATSON Camera gif

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired these images using its SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.

Images acquired on March 30, 2025 (Sol 1460) at the local mean solar time of 20:32:29 to 20:33:13.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Assembled by Barley Culiner with GIMP

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Biological and organic constituents of desert varnish: Review and new hypotheses https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253348135_Biological_and_organic_constituents_of_desert_varnish_Review_and_new_hypotheses

https://www.nps.gov/articles/desertvarnish.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_varnish

OCCURRENCE OF ROCK VARNISH AT YUNGAY, ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007/pdf/2251.pdf

Evidence of a microbial community associated with rock varnish at Yungay, Atacama Desert, Chile https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007JG000677

Life on the Edge: Microbes in Rock Varnish https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1570605

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria

Martian blueberries

https://blogbarley.blogspot.com/2023/05/cyanophyta.html

Cyanobacterial morphology https://blogbarley.blogspot.com/2023/10/blog-post_13.html