Rover Finds Iron on Mars

Rover unable to press shirts until it discovers water. Sorry, awful pun. Via Geek News Central, we’ve got another first in space history:

The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel according to readings from spectrometers on the rover. Only a small fraction of the meteorites fallen on Earth are similarly metal-rich. Others are rockier. As an example, the meteorite that blasted the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona is similar in composition.

‘Others are rockier’? What a peculiar usage. I continue to be amazed by the quality of the photos being sent by from another freakin’ planet.

3 comments

  1. Seems odd to me that they made a big deal of the rover finding iron on Mars. I mean, it’s Mars. The red planet, so named because of the amount of iron in the soil 😛

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