Spirit Grinds Adirondack, Looks for Iron

Quantum Jim writes "Space.com reported on Friday that Spirit used its Rock Abrasion Tool against a Martian rock dubbed Adirondack. Although the rover spent three hours grinding the rock, it was only skinned by about 2.7 mm. Scientists say this is due to an unexpected amount of resistance. Spirit is currently standing by for ground contollers to deactivate a safety feature so it can be repositioned"

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Looking for the obvious

[Pogue Mahone]

From the title:
Spirit grinds Adirondack, looks for iron

It's right there in the middle, between Ad and dack. Silly of it not to spot that right away ;-)

Tools

[Anonymous Coward]

Spirit used its Rock Abrasion Tool against a Martian rock...

...and by attaching the special router bit, it should manage to build a lovely bird-bath by the end of the week.

Re:eh...

[deglr6328]

If you want to be excited by them, talk about their observable features (foliation, heterogenous grain size, polarization proerties), not about their genesis. We don't have the evidence to conclude they're sedimentary, much as we would like to do so.

Yes, because when I think excitement, I think heterogeneous grain size polarization properties. :-) :)

Re:saftey?

[Thing 1]

Still, reminiscient of Chernobyl, where the engineers wanted to "turn off a safety feature" to run a test.

But I think it was just a poorly-worded submission.