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    Basketball-Shaped Discovery Stirs Controversy Rover finds meteorite on Mars Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on the Meridiani...
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    highlights included the initial 90-sol mission, finding meteorites such as Heat Shield Rock (Meridiani Planum meteorite), and over two years of exploring and studying...
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    toward "Erebus crater". Heat Shield Rock was the first meteorite ever identified on another planet. Heat shield, with Heat Shield Rock just above and to the...
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    rovers. The term does not include meteorites found on Mars, such as Heat Shield Rock. By the early 1980s, it was obvious that the SNC group of meteorites...
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    present, with the high-calcium varieties associated with younger volcanic shields and the low-calcium forms (enstatite) more common in the old highland terrain...
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  • help of large amounts of heat. On Mars, heat can come from molten rock moving under the ground and from crater impacts. Liquid rock under the ground is called...
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    Glossary of meteoritics Big Bertha (lunar sample) Hadley Rille meteorite Heat Shield Rock (Mars – Meridiani Planum meteorite) List of Martian meteorites List...
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    it began. These rovers have discovered many new things, including Heat Shield Rock, the first meteorite to be discovered on another planet. Phoenix launched...
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    Crater meteorite Big Bertha (lunar sample) Hadley–Apennine (Moon) Heat Shield Rock (Mars – Meridiani Planum meteorite) List of Martian meteorites List...
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    be iron meteorites. Heat Shield Rock was the first meteorite ever identified on another planet. Heat shield, with Heat Shield Rock just above and to the...
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    An example iron-nickel meteorite, Heat Shield Rock, with many hematite spherules in the background. Heat Shield Rock can also be seen in Figure 3 as a...
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    only solution to the GCR flux is heavy shielding amounting to roughly 15 centimeters of steel, 1 meter of rock, or 3 meters of water, limiting human colonists...
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    (and the third known meteorite found someplace other than Earth) was Heat Shield Rock. The first and the second ones were found on the Moon by the Apollo...
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    among the samples collected on the Moon. Block Island meteorite and Heat Shield Rock – Discovered on Mars by Opportunity rover among four other iron meteorites...
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  • imaged two rocks of similar chemical nature to that of Opportunity's Heat Shield Rock, a meteorite on the surface of Mars. Named "Zhong Shan" for Sun Yat-sen...
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    crater Cape Verde Vostok crater Block Island meteorite Bounce Rock El Capitan Heat Shield Rock Last Chance Mackinac Island meteorite Matijevic Hill Oileán...
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    Island mass meteorites. Atmospheric reentry Bounce Rock Glossary of meteoritics Heat Shield Rock List of Martian meteorites List of meteorites on Mars...
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    is extensively weathered. Atmospheric reentry Bounce Rock Glossary of meteoritics Heat Shield Rock List of Martian meteorites List of meteorites on Mars...
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    Thanksgiving. In 2003, The Rock used the Lakers-Kings rivalry to gain cheap heat during a WWE Raw show in Sacramento (The Rock even claimed that he was...
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    Gay Gulch Gebel Kamil Gibeon Goose Lake Grant Hadley Rille (Moon) Heat Shield Rock (Mars) High Possil Hoba Homestead Hraschina Huckitta I–J Imilac Itqiy...
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  • Evil Heat is the seventh studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream. It was first released on 5 August 2002 in the United Kingdom by Columbia Records...
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    Mars Glossary of meteoritics – Glossary of terms used in meteoritics Heat Shield Rock – Basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on Mars List of rocks...
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    with one of his "Rock Concerts", leading to a brawl with CM Punk. The following week on Raw, the Rock was attacked by The Shield. Vince McMahon then...
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    A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground. It is formed by the eruption of highly fluid...
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    is extensively weathered. Atmospheric reentry Bounce Rock Glossary of meteoritics Heat Shield Rock List of Martian meteorites List of meteorites on Mars...
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    Mount Takahe (redirect from Cadenazzi Rock)
    Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea...
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    be iron meteorites. Heat Shield Rock was the first meteorite ever identified on another planet. Heat shield, with Heat Shield Rock just above and to the...
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    alternative rock with two of their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991), pioneering a subgenre known as shoegaze. Shields's texturised...
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    grills. Heat shields are lighter, easier to replace and harbor less bacteria than rocks. Like lava rock or ceramic briquettes, heat shields also vaporize...
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    Geology portal List of rock types – List of rock types recognized by geologists Metamorphic rock – Rock that was subjected to heat and pressure Migmatite –...
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