Don't go for it, Dan. Sure, it's just a trillion dollars now, but give it a few months, and he'll be needing another 100 million for this and 200 million for that. The project time line will get pushed back, and who knows if we'll even still be using iron and steel by the time he's ready to launch. If it was me, I would be looking to invest in an enterprise that looked to Mars as a dumping ground for our excess dihydrogen monoxide. Do you have any idea how many people die each day as a result of contact with this substance?

Right, the blasted stuff keeps getting in my Scotch.

Phil

This meteor is pretty sweet . But I hope we will not waste time around this place.

So, here is the Sol 2022 navcam pan centered on Shelter Island :

This is bigger than BI, right ? More than 2X ?

SI is smaller than BI. There's a little blurb on the jpl site.

Yeah, 47 cm across for SI versus about 60 for BI.


Thanks, fredk. My guess from the sol 2020 images was a little over 3 meters off. I was planning to refine the location when the navcams came down, so it was nice to see that you had saved me the trouble.

This rock is probably not quite large enough to be resolved, though with its shadow and other local effects, who knows.

Then you're drinking the wrong brand of Scotch.

Here is a processed NAVCAM image of the 'sheltered island' meteorite.

let's drive!
cheers

here is a processed PANCAM image of 'sheltered island' meteorite



cheers

Think so too, because there seems to be at least one more in sight in the upper right of the pan...

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=147061

SI is partially buried in the dune. If it wasn't for the ripple, it would be on the surface. This makes me wonder what else lurks beneath this wind blown stuff.

Managed to work on Shelter Island a little more...



This is a seriously-beautiful meteorite... if this had been found on Earth it would be a museum centre-piece, with all those features...

No argument there. Makes me wonder how many great rocks like this have been quickly destroyed (relatively speaking) by Earth's voracious weathering processes.

<shakes fist>WAAAAATERRRR!!!!!....

Do you think of an evident reason why there's "so much" meteroits in this area while none has been noticed since the one near Endurance? (was it Bounce rock?)

Why so many here?

...Perhaps the break up of a larger meteorite. Maybe these are parts of the same single streak in the Martian sky. It might explain why Block Island looks the way it does...the weird looking cavities as if untouched by the forces of atmospheric entry. There are a few small craters that appear relatively young in this part of the plain too. Just food for thought and thinking out loud.