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A nicely shaped pebble, sitting close to the rover, imaged on sol 1436 (March 5, 2025), by one of the rover's front Hazard avoidance cameras.
It would look cool on my desk as a paperweight :)
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Yeah, you just have to pay for shipping.
Probably way beyond my budget LOL
Just go and pick it up.
Humm..
yes!, i knew polishing it would attract customers !
you'll have to scratch off the label i put there saying its mine, but you can try if you want, there are no lawyers on mars yet, however a rent has to be payed to me for just keeping it or claiming in public that this pebble was yours and as soon as lawyers arrive, we'll enforce the due payments to be collected ;-)
you're late, its already sold out that little planet lol
You did a fine job polishing it :) I guess I'll have to find another one :)
No because I saw it first, it's mine.
Then I best stick with my first pick from 2016 :)
This one looks like it's REALLY looking down on you, with intense disapproval. And it's got a big nose.
The disapproval could be associated with having being zapped with the rover's laser (See the 5 small bright spots on its surface)
Two questions: is it made of clay, and can you chew it?
is it made of clay, and can you chew it?
Not clay, it's an iron-nickel meteorite, that stuff is harder than nails, so chewing it would likely require some special teeth :)
I hereby grant you this rock.
Very gracious. Many thanks :)
So now that we've been here for two solid years - that's four whole years back on Earth! - after we've driven across the floor and over the delta and into the valley and all the way up the rim - NOW you decide you want a pet rock? After His Lordship has decided that he's going to tariff anything Martian?
sighs He's always like this with the shiny ones. He thinks it might be desert varnish. You think it's desert varnish, don't you? Do you know what'll happen if we actually do find any of that stuff? The handling procedures. The import licenses. The biohazard protocols! Endless arguments over G-band spectroscopy from the damn scientists, they'll be at it for years. How are you going to feel if your small rock happens to be the first with active biological entities? Come on, that's the last thing we want.
I can't take you anywhere, Paul.
you want a pet rock?
You know me so well ;)