[meteorite-list] Iron Meteorite on Mars (Color Photo)

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jan 19 20:05:22 2005
Message-ID: <200501200105.RAA06031_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1466

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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
Received on Wed 19 Jan 2005 08:05:11 PM PST