Proof the Rolling Stone are truly out of this world, NASA has named a small rock on Mars after the iconic band.
“Rolling Stones Rock” was unveiled during the Stones’ concert in Pasadena, California Thursday night, with Robert Downey, Jr. on hand to make the announcement. As the actor explained, the name came after a team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory noticed that a small rock, just a bit larger than a golf ball, had been propelled about three feet by the thrusters of the Mars InSight lander as it touched down last November.
“And some scientists,” Downey Jr. quipped, “in a fit of fandom and clever association, they put forth, ‘Why don’t we name it, Rolling Stones Rock?’”
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