January 20th, 2005

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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.

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Rob Barac
January 20th, 2005
5:15 pm

Did any of you catch the special on Titan (what a great name that is) on Discovery Channel and the short session on Saturn’s other moons?

It seems that Iapetus has a 1300km long ridge line around it’s waist. That is just mind-blowing.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=526

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Chris
January 20th, 2005
9:13 pm

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 :P

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joke
January 21st, 2005
8:50 am

uhh, it’s a meteorite.

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