[meteorite-list] Mars: Rotten Rocks
Sterling K. Webb
kelly at bhil.com
Wed Feb 2 11:38:40 EST 2005
Hi, List,
What about the "rotten rocks"?
<http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040615a.html>
These stones seem to have retained their (presumably) hard
outer crusts but have had their "insides" eroded away.
Now, it occurs to me that a fusion crusted meteorite of a
soft crumbly kind (type C?) might very well erode this way.
The fused crust would stand up to wind and sand better than
the soft interior.
Anybody think we might be looking at another Martian
meteorite?
Sterling K. Webb
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