Rolling Stones get name on little Martian rock that rolled

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There is now a “Rolling Stones Rock” on Mars, and it’s giving Mick, Keith and the boys some serious satisfaction.

Mick Jagger, center, performs with his Rolling Stones bandmates, from left, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards at the Rose Bowl, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, in Pasadena, Calif. Image: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Robert Downey Jr. announced the name, taking the stage just before the band’s set at the Southern California stadium that is just a stone’s throw from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages InSight. He told the crowd that JPL scientists had come up with the name “in a fit of fandom and clever association.”

It only moved about 3 feet , but that’s the farthest NASA has seen a rock roll while landing a craft on another planet.“I’ve seen a lot of Mars rocks over my career,” Matt Golombek, a JPL geologist who has helped NASA land all its Mars missions since 1997, said in a statement. “This one probably won’t be in a lot of scientific papers, but it’s definitely one of the coolest.”

The concert had originally been scheduled for spring, before the Stones postponed their No Filter North American tour because Jagger had heart surgery.

 

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