Hasta La Gadget!

While the Mars Spirit rover is still stuck, its twin Opportunity has begun imaging a possible meteorite on the surface of the red planet. The chunk of iron isn’t the first one the two rovers have come across, but it’s the largest at about two feet wide and one foot high, according to Discover.

“When you’re driving around on relatively smooth, flat, boring plains for a long time, anything that looks like a decent-sized rock says, ‘Come get me!'” said rover team member Albert Yen, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the article.

To study the possible meteorite, scientist are training the rover’s alpha particle X-ray spectrometer on it in order to study its composition, the report said. The goal is to gain insight as to what the meteorite saw–atmosphere and surface-wise–when it first landed on Mars however many eons ago.