NASA Curiosity snaps photo of iron meteorite debris on Mars

Northern Voice Online, 17 July, 2014 : The picture is going viral at the moment. NASA Curiosity snaps photo of iron meteorite debris on Mars.

NASA’s Curiosity rover seems to be in the news once again. The van sized NASA probe that is mapping Mars has been taking snaps and sending them to NASA. It is besides other scientific tests that it is conducting for NASA for the last two years.

Many of the pictures that the small rover has sent to NASA that the US space agency continues to release become viral given the fact that they are unique and were never snapped before.

Now the NASA Curiosity is in the news once again and as the rover that has been drilling the surface of the moon for the last two years to find trace of water there has snapped meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet.

Astronomers who studied the meteorite very closely suggest that it seems to be the debris of iron meteorite that seems to have fallen on the Martian surface.

It is not yet clear if the Curiosity rover actually drilled this meteorite debris or not. But had it done so we would have already heard a lot about it. Even very small news from the Curiosity make huge headlines across the world. reports suggest that the NASA scientists have called this 2-meter wide meteorite ‘Lebanon’ and another smaller rock as ‘Lebanon B’.

Reports suggest that the latest pictures sent by Curiosity rover come along with several other high-resolution circular images that Curiosity’s Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) takes. These snaps were reportedly taken on May 25, 2014. ChemCam can reportedly understand a rock’s composition up to 25 feet away by releasing a series of laser pulses at the rock. NASA scientists are of the view that its energy beam electrons within the rock, causing them to emit light. They say that this light emitted by the rock is then collected by a telescope built into ChemCam, that sends it to a spectrometer on the rover that finally analyses it.