More interesting...

http://mars.jpl.n...DXXX.jpg

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More interesting...

http://mars.jpl.n...DXXX.jpg

Top middle of image.


That's very unusual. I wonder what that is. It looks as though it could be metallic.

It is too far away to be from the rover itself.

Strongly deserving of investigation.

Stoney Iron Meteorite?

It could be. But it's an usual shape. It almost appears to be sticking out of the rock underneath. I wonder what NASA would make of it.

I'm thinking that it is a metal/mineral inclusion in a rock/clay that has been exposed as the surrounding rock/clay has been weathered and sand blasted away.

More pictures are required.

Apparently no iron oxides are presented bellow surface - the rock is of pure grey color like the concrete. It seems, most of typical Mars color comes from meteorites. It's just the presence of atmosphere, what makes the Mars visually different from Moon.

Photoshop.

Apparently no iron oxides are presented bellow surface - the rock is of pure grey color like the concrete. It seems, most of typical Mars color comes from meteorites. It's just the presence of atmosphere, what makes the Mars visually different from Moon.


As the crust is completely brecciated to the mantle, and the surface covered with rock dredged up from 10s of kilometers in depth, I doubt you can tell a "meteorite" from a Mars' rock.

And This Bloody Well Isn't Bedrock. It is the floor of an impact crater which has been filled with material, post impact. God Dam but when will physorg get some qualified editors?

looks like a martian rabbit to me

So that's what happened to the hot water handle from my bathroom faucet.

Shootist:

And This Bloody Well Isn't Bedrock. It is the floor of an impact crater which has been filled with material, post impact. God Dam but when will physorg get some qualified editors?


You need to do a little bit more reading. The crater is very ancient. It seems to have been filled in after it was created, probably completely filled in with sediment. Since then, it has been weathered back out, exposing bedrock below what was once the bottom of the crater. Mount Sharpe is all that remains of the sediment that once filled the crater. The rock which Curiosity is currently drilling actually is bedrock; older than the crater itself.

At least read the wiki page before polluting the thread with wrong information.

1), bedrock is a specific term in geology.
bed·rock
/ˈbedˌräk/
Noun
Solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

You can look at the released photos and see there is no solid rock. Breccia everywhere.

2), You are completely incorrect to assume there is "bedrock" in the floor of an impact crater. Here is a primer on cratering.

http://www.lpi.us...-954.pdf

Aeolis Mons is uplifted bedrock, yes. But the transient crater was ~25km deep, filled with unconsolidated breccia, then loess, then erosion back to the unconsolidated breccia.

There is no bedrock to be studied in the floor of Gale crater. It is kilometers deep.

Looking around at other "news" reports, including the release from NASA. Physorg is the only one that refers to "bedrock". Thankfully, some are not as ignorant as others.