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It would appear that Opportunity has stumbled upon another meteorite

Posted By Emily Lakdawalla

2009/10/02 12:58 CDT

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A nice place to stop for the weekend:

Shelter Island

NASA / JPL / Cornell / mosaic by Astro0

Shelter Island
Combined Pancam and Navcam view of the meteorite Shelter Island on sol 2,022.
I wonder if this came from the same original body as Block Island, or if Meridiani is the kind of slowly deflating landscape that accumulates meteorites at its surface, like the ANSMET meteorite hunting spots in Antarctica?

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