The dark, golf-ball-size object in this composite, colorized view from the ChemCam instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is a nickel-iron meteorite, as confirmed by analysis using laser pulses from ChemCam on Oct. 30, 2016. Credits: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/LPGNantes/CNRS/IAS/MSSS
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–November 3, 2016.Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet’s sky.Iron-nickel meteorites are a common class of space rocks found on…
