From the NASA Site
The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.
YES They are STILL running around doing great science.
Kudos to all that work on this program.
Now that’s cool!
If the spectrometer verifies this, would this be the first confirmed meteorite found on an extra-terrestrial body?
The craters are obvious proof of these meteorite impacts, but it’s always cool to finally find one intact, not unlike when we finally found a living giant squid for the first time a few years ago.
Actually, this is not the first confirmed meteorite found on a planetary body. That happened in late 2004/early 2005. The Opportunity rover found an iron-rich meteorite sitting on the surface of Mars very close to the impact sight of the heat shield used by the rover/lander during the descent through the Mars atmosphere. You can read more about that find in the press release that was issued at the time.
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