Lebanon, Finally Discovered On Mars!

           
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovered its first meteorites on the red planet, which scientists have named 'Lebanon' and its smaller companion 'Lebanon B'.            

The rocks were found on the 25thof May, but Tuesday was the first time NASA released a detailed photo of the Lebanon meteorites.          

Using its high-resolution Chem-Cam and Remote Micro-Imager cameras, Curiosity took detailed pictures of the main Lebanon meteorite, revealing strange angular cavities in the surface of the rock.           

Space.com quoted NASA spokesman Guy Webster from the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California as saying that 'Lebanon' is huge, almost 2 meters big.              

Webster said Curiosity also found a third meteorite at the same time it spotted the Lebanon rocks.           

It is worth noting that the three meteorites are the first space rocks on Mars discovered by the Curiosity rover since it landed on the Red Planet in August 2012.               

But why were they called Lebanon you ask? We think it has a lot to do with the JPL Director of the Curiosity project, Charles Elachi, being Lebanese, but that's just our theory.