Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Rover Cracks Mystery Of Mars Spheres

Posted by timothy on from the blueberries-my-foot dept.

Ant writes "CNN has a story about scientists having learned the composition of the mysterious sphere-shaped objects scattered across the crater floor at Meridiani Planum, the landing site of the Opportunity Mars rover."

1 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. Why does it have to be water? by tjmsquared · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NASA seems to be asserting that because they are spheres they must have formed in water. Any geologist know why they could not be volcanic and still be spherical?