Images of New Identified Meteorite Adjacent to NASA Mars Opportunity Rover Heatshield Impact Point
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Finds an Iron Meteorite on Mars
“The meteorite, dubbed “Heat Shield Rock,” sits near debris of Opportunity’s heat shield on the surface of Meridiani Planum, a cratered flatland that has been Opportunity’s home since the robot landed on Mars nearly one year ago.”
Science goes deeper with Antarctic meteorites
“Of the 15,000 meteorites in the U.S. collection, Antarctic meteorites number about 10,000. As a comparison, the largest Antarctic collection in the world is at Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research and numbers about 16,700 meteorites, according to the institute’s Naoya Imae.”
