Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Iron Meteorite on Mars
Original Caption Released with Image:
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite on Mars, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet. The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel. Readings from spectrometers on the rover determined that composition. Opportunity used its panoramic camera to take the images used in this approximately true-color composite on the rover's 339th martian day, or sol (Jan. 6, 2005). This composite combines images taken through the panoramic camera's 600-nanometer (red), 530-nanometer (green), and 480-nanometer (blue) filters.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell
Produced By:
Cornell University
Mission:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:
Opportunity
Target Name:
Mars
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
Panoramic Camera
Product Size:
514 samples x 513 lines
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Opportunity
facet_what:
Panoramic Camera
facet_what:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Image #:
PIA07269
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA07269
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Iron Meteorite on Mars