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Possible Meteorite Imaged By Opportunity Rover
Matt_dk writes "The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite. The team spotted the rock called 'Block Island,' on July 18, 2009, in the opposite direction from which it was driving. The rover then backtracked some 250 meters (820 feet) to study it closer. Scientists will be testing the rock with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to get composition measurements and to confirm if indeed it is a meteorite."
After all you know, Arthur C Clarke predicted this in 2001: A Space Odyssey, then in 2010
NASA should make RC toys to build funds, if anything I bought lasted as long as these rovers, I'd be a happy camper.
But shouldn't there be a bigass crater with a meteorite that big?
Why no crater? It looks like it floated onto the ground.
I was worried for a second when I misread the title as "Possible Meteorite Imagined By Opportunity Rover".
Why the use of this adjective? Most rocks i know of are "odd shaped"
mmm... block island
salt water taffy, clams, lobster...
http://www.blockislandguide.com/cuisine.html
sorry, its 11:52 am right now on the east coast
time to go to lunch i think
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Preliminary analysis shows that the black unindentified object might have come from Uranus.
Perhaps it tumbled into position and the crater(s) are some distance away. It looks highly unusual as it is sitting too high up above the surface indicating that it was not deposited along with the rest of the material which *guessing* is why they were able to identify it as a possible meteorite from such a far away distance. Besides the color presumably not matching the surrounding material.
Looks like the Monolith was discovered on Mars. For some reason I was expecting it to be found on the Moon . . .
Why so much fuzz about a meteorite.
can some one enligth me please
Scientists will be testing the rock with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to get composition measurements and to confirm if indeed it is a meteorite.
. . . if there's some Mars critters in there, they ain't gonna be happy.
. . . before you say "get off my lawn," do you mind if I point my "alpha particle X-ray spectrometer" at your house . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Is that NASA has been covering up fossil evidence that it found on Mars - check out this image of a Martian crinoid
SPREAD THE WORD. Life on Mars.
that must have softlanded not to leave the crater!
As an alternate scientific hypotesis I would say the martians just put a rock there to make fun of us!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
Look, Earthlings don't have a monopoly on flubbing rover landings or making unit conversion screw-ups. Fortunately we still have a monopoly on working Mars rovers! They though that since Mar's atmosphere is so weak they could completely ignore air friction and make the thing out of really light and cheap materials, and that melted hunk of slab is all that's left of their rover.
On the other hand, the Euporans are way ahead of us on exploring Neptune.
The enemies of Democracy are
When a journalist suggested that the blue planet's robot had merely paused to inspect a meteorite, K'Breel had the traitor's gelsacs stapled to the heat shield of his flagship, and initiated re-entry procedures.
It would be humorous if the meteorite on Mars was of Earth origin (blow back from Earth getting hit by something). We found evidence of life on Mars! Err, it's from Earth.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
here's a link to a blog by someone on the mars rover team:- Mars and Me
...fascinating stuff!! :)
Given that there is no sort of crater for something that large, i would be pushing the glacier deposit theory.
Of course since the edges of the rock aren't worn at all, I guess you could say that it was a meteor that hit and melted a glacier...that would explain the lack of a crater.
A rock in the shape of a sphere or a cube or a tetrahedron...now that will be odd to have
such a non odd shaped rock on Mars. Hence a non odd shaped rock is odd and an odd
shaped rock is non odd. Go figure what was meant then
Turns out that Opputunity spotted this metorite in space. Heading towards earth. That is all.
Rover captured image of possible meteorite. /hates passive voice //won't read your whiny ass reply, save your time
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I don't think I'd be able to afford a realistic version of the rover... but an officially licensed NASA rover toy would be kind of cool.
The first one found in 2005 made big news. Since then there have been seven more suspected.
Strange. The meteroite is just residing onto the flat terrain.
Where's the crater it should have created on impact?
And costs $500 million...
Silly NASA keeps forgetting to put in the blast crater...
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These converted values in feet are really useless... it just adds to confusion, didn't you learn already? Probes were lost because of this insane resistance to assume metric as the default. Who does still bothers to know a value in this ancient unit anyway!!!