Mars Rover’s Basketball-Shaped Discovery Stirs Controversy
Rover finds meteorite on Mars
Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on the Meridiani Planum plain of Mars by the Mars rover Opportunity in January 2005.
Informally referred to as "Heat Shield Rock" by the Opportunity research team, the meteorite was formally named Meridiani Planum meteorite by the Meteoritical Society in October 2005 (meteorites are always named after the place where they were found).[1]
Basketball-Shaped Discovery Stirs Controversy Rover finds meteorite on Mars HeatShieldRock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on the Meridiani...
toward "Erebus crater". HeatShieldRock was the first meteorite ever identified on another planet. Heatshield, with HeatShieldRock just above and to the...
rovers. The term does not include meteorites found on Mars, such as HeatShieldRock. By the early 1980s, it was obvious that the SNC group of meteorites...
present, with the high-calcium varieties associated with younger volcanic shields and the low-calcium forms (enstatite) more common in the old highland terrain...
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help of large amounts of heat. On Mars, heat can come from molten rock moving under the ground and from crater impacts. Liquid rock under the ground is called...
among the samples collected on the Moon. Block Island meteorite and HeatShieldRock – Discovered on Mars by Opportunity rover among four other iron meteorites...
it began. These rovers have discovered many new things, including HeatShieldRock, the first meteorite to be discovered on another planet. Phoenix launched...
only solution to the GCR flux is heavy shielding amounting to roughly 15 centimeters of steel, 1 meter of rock, or 3 meters of water, limiting human colonists...
imaged two rocks of similar chemical nature to that of Opportunity's HeatShieldRock, a meteorite on the surface of Mars. Named "Zhong Shan" for Sun Yat-sen...
(and the third known meteorite found someplace other than Earth) was HeatShieldRock. The first and the second ones were found on the Moon by the Apollo...
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Island mass meteorites. Atmospheric reentry Bounce Rock Glossary of meteoritics HeatShieldRock List of Martian meteorites List of meteorites on Mars...
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with one of his "Rock Concerts", leading to a brawl with CM Punk. The following week on Raw, the Rock was attacked by The Shield. Vince McMahon then...
grills. Heatshields are lighter, easier to replace and harbor less bacteria than rocks. Like lava rock or ceramic briquettes, heatshields also vaporize...
is extensively weathered. Atmospheric reentry Bounce Rock Glossary of meteoritics HeatShieldRock List of Martian meteorites List of meteorites on Mars...
alternative rock with two of their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991), pioneering a subgenre known as shoegaze. Shields's texturised...
is extensively weathered. Atmospheric reentry Bounce Rock Glossary of meteoritics HeatShieldRock List of Martian meteorites List of meteorites on Mars...
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