[meteorite-list] Why doesn't Mars look like Mars?

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:03:44 +0100
Message-ID: <003a01c86c9d$c763c950$177f2a59_at_name86d88d87e2>

Hi E.P.

But they do!
Remember that the rovers found indeed shergottites on Mars.
Just scratch the weathering goo away and let the Moessbauer-proboscis smell
on the rock - et voil?!
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/104.cfm

Best!
Martin

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Grondine
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Hi all -

Looking at Fectay's really nice martian:

http://www.geocities.com/arizonaviking2000/Tucsonshowandparty2008c081.jpg

one is left wondering, "Why doesn't Mars look like
Mars?" Nothing remotely similar shows up in the images
the rovers send down.

The answer in short would appear to be that all that
the rovers are imaging is the surface layer, which is
simply loaded with impact products, all covered with
iron compounds from iron impactors.

So Mars may be the red planet - but only on its
surface.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas






 
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