Re: Iron Meteorite on Mars (Color Photo)

From: beavith (beavith1_at_netscape.net)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:14:11 GMT

On 19 Jan 2005 17:02:45 -0800, baalke@earthlink.net wrote:

>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1466
>
>[Image]
>
>Iron Meteorite on Mars
>January 19, 2005
>
>NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite
>on
>Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another
>planet.
>The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel.
>Readings from spectrometers on the rover determined that composition.
>Opportunity used its panoramic camera to take the images used in this
>approximately true-color composite on the rover's 339th martian day, or
>sol (Jan. 6, 2005). This composite combines images taken through the
>panoramic camera's 600-nanometer (red), 530-nanometer (green), and
>480-nanometer (blue) filters.
>
>Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell

thanks for the heads up. neat pic.

my question is: why or how is it just sitting there, splat on the
plain?
 
it reminds me of meteorites that land on glaciers in antarctica and is
found to be left resting on the surface after the glacier is ablated
by winds.

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