Published on January 28, 2017
The odd-looking lump has been named Egg Rock and is made of iron and Nickel
Nasa’s Curiosity rover has used its lasers to find out what a Martian meteorite was made of for the first time.
Scientists at the Mars Science Laboratory, which operates Curiosity, saw the metallic globule using a camera mounted on the rover called Mastcam, Nasa says. The rover came across the golf-ball-sized meteorite last week and used its ChemCam instrument to analyse it.
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