[meteorite-list] Question Martian in 3-D

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 9:54:01 -0700
Message-ID: <20090807125401.8TEJP.57204.imail_at_fed1rmwml42>

Pete, List,
Very interesting photo.
I have a question about it's morphology?
Why does it look like that? Why does it have so many holes / dents?
Given the atmosphere on Mars being so thin compared with Earth, I thought Earths Atmosphere is what caused this type of erosion of surface materials? It was my understanding that the material ablated away as it passed through the atmosphere . If that is so then why does it look the same on Mars.
Is it possible that maybe it already looked like this before it entered Mars' atmosphere?
Just curious.

--
Carl or Debbie Esparza
IMCA 5829
Meteoritemax
---- Pete Pete <rsvp321 at hotmail.com> wrote: 
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> Hi, all,
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> An incredible view of a Martian iron in fine detail!
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> (note the full resolution link)
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> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/mer20090806.html
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/mer20090806.html
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> It suggests red/green, but red/blue works fine.
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> Cheers,
> Pete
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Received on Fri 07 Aug 2009 12:54:01 PM PDT