Its probably only a meteorite. <_<

Opportunity Spots Curious Object on Mars

Nice find TuTone.

It'll be interesting to see more information as they examine it, and read what they think it is.

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I'm tellin ya, it's an alien volleyball!

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I bet its a piece of petrified alien cheese!!! They probably left it there after being defeated in the "War of The Worlds"!

Looks like a turd, dropped after one of those metal munching Martians ate the Beagle.

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it has all the markings of a merterite.The thumbprint , if you know what i mean

sheesh where is ExtraSense when you need her/him/it? But I thinks its the soccer ball from the Olympus vs. Cydonia match

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Looks just like a meteorite... but it could be anything!! jeje :P

Judging the proxmity to the heat shield, I have to say that perhaps it's a mangled piece of the heat shield, or the partially fused and consolidated remnants of the foil material used to protect the space craft in space. Especially since they believe it to be metal.

Looks like gold ...

Can't really tell the size of it but there's no impact marks surrounding it if it is a meteorite. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Also, probably nothing too big <_< , but I wonder what that shiny thing is next to Opportunity's left wheel in the 1st image & in the 2nd image there is a shiny object in the very upper left corner. Is it a piece of metal or a piece of paper, because I thought Mars was just sand & rock. :mellow:

Impossible to accurately judge scale but for the apparent granularity of the surrounding surface it is possibly the size of a grapefruit.

The few Meteorites, on Earth, that I have seen don't have the same perforated structure that this does. But some forms of solidified lava do.

Given the differences between Earth's and Mar's atmospheric depth and density there may be an explanation for the difference in appearance. But surely an object of its apparent size would have created quite an impact crater, which this does not seem to be in the bottom of.

What's with the "parking-lot like landscape" description. Field of sanddunes is surely more apt. Unless it's in a Saudi CBD after a sand storm.

As for the scatalogical reference, to be consistant, it would be bovine.

It says that the Mini - TES of the rover suggests that the odd object is a metal.

Just wait, hopefully the results will explain.

Here is a link for a story on space.com 's site about this unusual rock. Basically, the insturments are doing their duty, and answers should be available soon. Enjoy the link.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/mars_...ock_050117.html

It's official, it's a meteorite! My guess is that the impact was wiped away with the windstorms on Mars.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/mars_...eor_050119.html

Karen

Well...that is certainly disappointing. Still looks like digested remains of the Beagle to me. :huh:

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