# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BMU9dY4FmN7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736395-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/c15ce1a09d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-11-03T00:14:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

SPOTTED! Odd-looking, golf-ball-size object on Mars. What is it?The dark, smooth-surfaced object at the center of this Oct. 30 image from our Curiosity Mars rover was examined with laser pulses and confirmed to be an iron-nickel meteorite.

The grid of shiny points visible on the object resulted from that laser zapping by the rover.

Iron-nickel meteorites are a common class of space rocks.

Credits: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#nasa #space #mars #meteorite #journeytomars #marscuriosity #marsrover

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meteorite, marsrover, nasa, space, marscuriosity, mars, journeytomars

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