Eric Chomko wrote:
|: Are you discussing living plant matter?
|:
|: Yes of cause, IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion) one has to be
|: REALLY blind not to wan tto see the roots coming out of teh sperules.

They looked more like they fell off the ends of stalks, and fell into
the wind. A round shape is consistent with the need to travel long
distances, fortuitously driven by the wind.

|: There are several picts, and even in one I did see the roots were in
|: a stair formn under the ground, but the pattern still visible.
|: The discussion is abpout REAL LIVING plants!
|
|Feeding on what? Can Spirit and Oppurtunity resolve cell growth or the
|like with its current mircoscope-like camera?

What makes you think there should be cells? Can't the stuff
preferentially deposit itself as the wind makes the stuff available
to it? If this were the case, the 'growing' process would be more
like the growth of a crystal. Like a sodium straw, but with some
other mineral. Airborne particles of 'near-ice' (whatever that
may be, it's pretty salty stuff, isn't it?) would strike the ends
of 'straws' and the particles would temporarily attach. In the
daytime, the ends of the stalks might even be lucky enough to go
above the freezing point. That would allow minerals to precipitate
out of solution, extending the lengths of the stalks. It doesn't
do anything to show that there are any 'cells' responsible for
carrying energy from point A to point B, let alone exchanging energy
in a photosynthetic sort of reaction.