According to the article I don't think that is quite the case shaggy. They are not really interested in the meteorite itself. They are more interested infact about how the martian surface moves around. They can't really do anything with the meteorite because the tools are not designed to deal with nickel iron alloys. If they were planing to they would of had tungsten carbide or even diamond cutting tools for the job. Getting new types of tools to the rovers is a tad tricky. It is posible but would be a waist of time and money. I suspect that there will be plenty more missions to mars so with this in mind they could put the required tooling to deal with meteorites on to the next rover they send up. A lot of the future missions are planned around some of these suprises that pop up every now and then. Matt
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