Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Strangers on Mars
Explanation:
This view [ http://photojournal…] from the winter station of Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, looks across the rock strewn landscape of Gusev Crater [ http://science.nasa…]. The dark boulders and distant hills are characteristic of the region, but the two light colored rocks in the foreground of this cropped image are - like Spirit [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] itself - most probably strangers to the Red Planet, believed to be iron [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] meteorites [ http://meteorites.l…]. Informally named for sites in Antarctica [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] they have been dubbed "Zhong Shan" and "Allan Hills." Zhong Shan is the Antarctic base of the People's Republic of China. Allan Hills is the icy location where many Martian meteorites have been found [ http://geology.cwru…] on planet Earth, including the controversial ALH84001 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], suggested to contain evidence for fossilized Martian microbial life.
Credit and Copyright:
Mars Exploration Rover Mission [ http://marsrovers.j…], Cornell [ http://athena.corne…], JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov…]
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Mars
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Arizona
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China
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Earth
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Mars
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Crater
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Spirit
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap060721

Strangers on Mars
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