Its petrology and minerology was consistent with Martian samples studied with all the landers we've put up there over the years. It's not asteroidal and definitely not terrestrial, thus the inference. Yet we can't really be sure until we get geologists hammering around out there.
>> Was there a tag on it that said made on Mars?
Its petrology and minerology was consistent with Martian samples studied with all the landers we’ve put up there over the years. It’s not asteroidal and definitely not terrestrial, thus the inference. Yet we can’t really be sure until we get geologists hammering around out there.<<
Which means placing geologists on Mars is a better way to spend money than 75% of the other ways we pour money down our current rat holes and it would actually SAVE and CREATE more jobs that the same amount of money spend for the “stimulus”...
Plus you employ a couple of geologists.