New meteor found on Mars three weeks after Block Island

[rlb2]

Opportunity Finds Another Meteorite

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite, less than three weeks after driving away from a larger meteorite that the rover examined for six weeks.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20091002a.html

Here are color Images I made from raw images of it.

To follow the images I make from Opportunity and Spirit images go here:

http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=3897&p=143732#p143732

Go here for all the color images I processed so far over 1,200 images including new ones of this meteor and Block Island.

http://picasaweb.google.com/shineinnovations

I don't post much here anymore so this may be the last time you hear from me for a while...

 

[silylene]

rlb2, thanks, I rely on you and a few others to post the interesting Mars rover pictures .... Nice pictures like always.

 

[MeteorWayne]

There's a discussion of this in the Opportunity thread in Missions and Launches from last week.

 

[rlb2]

Thanks silylene.

 

[rlb2]

Here is a new Image of "Shelter Island"

Go here for all the color images I processed so far, over 1,200 images ,including new ones of "Shelter Island" and the full image of the one above.

http://picasaweb.google.com/shineinnovations