We arranged Hunveyor as if it were landed on a planetary surface
and arranged around it the most important rock types from the Solar System
rocky bodies. The list of rocky actors around is as follows:
1. basalt with mantle xenolith (basalt is the most common rock type in the Solar System, the specimen is from Szentbékkálla, Balaton highlands, W-Hungary), [4]
2. lherzolite (over mantle xenoliths Martian meteorites represent this rock type from the Solar System, the specimen is from Szentbékkálla, W-Hungary), [4]
3. komatiite (it represents early volcanism on Earth, high Mg content, probably present in volcanism of Mars and Io, and found similar rock by Venera 14 on Venus, too; the specimen is from Australia), [5-7]
4. andesite (a rock type mostly in island arc in plate tectonics, but present on Mars recognized by Pathfinder; the specimen is from the Inner-Carpathian Arc, Börzsöny Mts. N-Hungary), [8-9]
5. zeolite (a rock type produced by surface weathering on Mars and also by hydrothermal volcanism and metamorphism on Earth; the specimen is from Rátka, Tokaj Mts. E-Hungary), [10-11]
6. rhyolite by impact melting from granite (a larger piece from Ramsö island, Mien crater, Skone Province, Sweden, which exhibits clasts and fragments from the precursor rocks), [12]
7. gabbro (both on the Moon and Earth it is an importrant mafic rock, both a microgabbro and a larger grain sized gabbro is from Tardos Mine, Szarvaskő, Bükk Mts. N-Hungary), [13]
8. wehrlite with high titanium content (at Szarvaskő, both some gabbros and wehrlite ore peridotite has this unusual characteristic making them relatives to the famous Apollo 11 and 17 high Ti basalts), [13]
9. vesicular basalt (sometimes found by Apollo astronauts on the Moon, i.e. 15016, [14] the specimen is from Ság Mt. Celldömölk, W-Hungary),
10. granite (we know it from the Earth in large block and as small fragments they occur on the Moon, probably Venus may have this rock type, too; the specimen is from Erdősmecske, Mórágy r. Mecsek Mts. S-Hungary),
11. phonolite (Venera 13 found such high K rock type on Venus, the specimen is from Mecsek Mts. S-Hungary), [5]
12. sand from river Danube gives a homogeneous background. (later planetary simulant soils [15-16])
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