Posted on 09/12/2011 12:16:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Why does this Martian rock have so much zinc? Roughly the size and shape of a tilted coffee-table, this oddly flat, light-topped rock outcropping was chanced upon a few weeks ago by the robotic Opportunity rover currently rolling across Mars. Early last month Opportunity reached Endeavour crater, the largest surface feature it has ever encountered, and is now exploring Endeavour's rim for clues about how wet Mars was billions of years ago. Pictured above and named Tisdale 2, the unusual rock structure was probed by Opportunity last week and is now thought to be a remnant thrown off during the impact that created nearby Odyssey crater. The resulting chemical analysis of Tisdale 2, however, has shown it to have a strangely high amount of the element zinc. The reason for this is currently unknown, but might turn out to be a clue to the history of the entire region. Opportunity is already finding rocks older than any previously studied and will continue to explore several other intriguing rock formations only now glimpsed from a distance.
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[Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA]
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Hmmmm... I vill haf to zinc about zat....
An alien space craft threw out everything including the kitchen zinc.
Zinc?
It rubbed of the nose of the “Cydonia Face” guy.
He was a lifeguard.
However the zinc got there, there is one thing you can be sure of:
It is absolute proof of Anthropomorphic Global Warming here on earth.
(Everything is.)
I’d hardly call “High School Musical,” “rock.”
(Ashley Tisdale joke.)
It has the general shape of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier flight deck. Hmmm...
Bush's Fault
:’)
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