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Mars Guy takes a look at heavy metal from space, a finding from the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover now exploring Jezero Crater.

“Perseverance has gone for more than four years without encountering what three previous rovers have found on Mars: rocks not from Mars,” Mars Guy explains. “Now it too may have found a chunk of iron left over from a world destroyed while the Solar System was still young.”

High likelihood

NASA’s Perseverance rover team recently reported that an oddly shaped rock it encountered in September on the outer rim of Jezero Crater has high amounts of the elements iron and nickel.

NASA’s Opportunity rover inspected discarded heat shield, gaining “unexpected bonus science.” Labeled “Heat Shield Rock” it is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on the Meridiani Planum plain of Mars in January 2005.
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There’s a high likelihood that this is an iron nickel meteorite from space.

“And that possibility is boosted by the fact that other rovers elsewhere on Mars have definitely found iron nickel meteorites,” explains Mars Guy.

Take a look at this new video explaining the new finding at: https://youtu.be/T0FtnyUBN6Q