Attacking Mars
The Spirit rover attacked Mars again late last month.
What might look, above, like a military attack, though, was once again just a scientific one - Spirit was instructed to closely inspect some interesting rocks near Columbia Hills.
Spirits Front Hazard Avoidance Camera
captured the rover's Instrument Deployment Device above as it guided the Microscopic Imager to get a closer look at a
rock dubbed
Breadbox.
Images taken by the Microscopic Imager show a rock surface
consistent with
basalt corroded by ancient
groundwater.
Structures with similar origins can be found, for example, in the
Western Desert of
Egypt on
Earth.
The above picture taken on June 30, the 175th
Martian day that the Spirit rover has been on the
red planet.