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PIA05203: Meridiani's Autograph

This spectrum of the soil at NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site, Meridiani Planum, shows the presence of the shiny green mineral called olivine also seen at the rover's landing site, Gusev Crater.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:	Opportunity
Instrument:	Moessbauer Spectrometer
Product Size:	800 x 600 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA05203.tif (173 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA05203.jpg (38.87 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This spectrum of the soil at the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site, Meridiani Planum, shows the presence of the shiny green mineral called olivine also seen at the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's landing site, Gusev Crater. Based on this data, scientists believe the soil at Meridiani is made-up of in part of finely grained basalt, a type of volcanic rock. The spectrum was captured by Opportunity's Moessbauer spectrometer.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL/University of Mainz

Image Addition Date:

2004-02-04