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It would appear that Opportunity has stumbled upon another meteorite

Emily Lakdawalla

Written by Emily Lakdawalla
October 2, 2009

A nice place to stop for the weekend:

Shelter Island
Shelter Island Combined Opportunity Pancam and Navcam view of the meteorite Shelter Island on sol 2022.Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / mosaic by Glen Nagle (Astro0)

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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