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Which can measure up to the size of the Colosseum

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For example the rover fired laser beams at it to determine its composition see image below . Here you see Cocoa . The red dots seen in the inset indicate the locations where Curiosity sent a laser beam down on the meteorite. When Curiosity fires laser beams at rocks – and meteorites – a fraction of the material that makes up such a space rock evaporates. By analyzing the vapor released the rover can then draw conclusions about the composition of the rock or the meteorite . Image NASA JPL Caltech MSSS. Egg Rock It is certainly not the first time that Curiosity has encountered an iron meteorite.

For example in it found Egg Rock a space rock the size of a golf ball. This was also the first iron meteorite to be further analyzed on Mars using laser beams. Eggrock. Image NASA JPL Caltech MSSS. Lebanon At least as impressive is the one Curiosity discovered two years earlier in which you can see below. This iron meteorite was named Lebanon and measures no less than meters. In the foreground is a smaller Albania Phone Number List meteorite designated Lebanon B . Lebanon and Lebanon B. Image NASA JPL Caltech LANL CNES IRAP LPGNantes CNRS IAS MSSS. How long meteorites such as Lebanon Egg Rock or Cacao have been resting on the surface of Mars is impossible to determine according to NASA. But some may have already crashed on the red planet millions of years ago. On Earth Iron meteorites are not very rare in themselves they are also regularly found on earth although stone specimens turn up here just a little more often.

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On Mars however the lion s share of the small number of meteorites recovered are iron specimens. This may be explained by the fact that iron meteorites are much more resistant to the erosion processes on the red planet than their stone counterparts. Iron space rocks such as Cacao may have formed the core of asteroids in our solar system s infancy—that is billions of years ago. When the asteroids then collided their iron cores shattered into fragments. And some of those debris then landed – in the form of meteorites – on Earth and Mars. And where on Mars they quietly waited for discovery by Mars rovers such as Curiosity things went very differently on Earth.
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