[Mars] Scientists named the angular rock after the Adirondack mountain range in New York. The name `Adirondacks` is an Anglicized version of the Mohawk ratirontaks, meaning `they eat trees`, a derogatory name which the Mohawk historically applied to the Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Adirondack Mountains; when food was scarce, the Algonq... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_(Mars)