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Rover finds strange rock on Mars surface
By Mike Moffitt, San Francisco Chronicle Updated 2:51 pm, Thursday, January 19, 2017
There's no end to the earthly items that Red Planet UFO enthusiasts have "discovered" on Mars a snake, a coffin, traffic light, cat, lizard, even a sasquatch, just to name a few.
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But, as Live Science reports, one rock that has piqued scientists' interest is a unusual dark-gray object that seems out of place with the rest of the reddish rock and dirt spread across the Martian landscape. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity photographed the rock on Jan. 12.
The scientists are so intrigued with the sharp-edged stone that they have given it a name Ames Knob. Results from Curiosity's laser-firing spectrometer, a.k.a. ChemCam, suggest its composition to be iron and nickel, commonly found in meteorites.
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ret5hd
(20,522 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,717 posts)Quackers
(2,256 posts)The composition seems consistent too.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)and also uncovering the rock later.
It's certainly weird to see that rock there!
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)hunter
(38,328 posts)You'd hide in your shell too if someone shot a laser at you.