can you point to a photograph of same - please post url.
Jerry



Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:

March 14, 2004

Eric Pouhier wrote:

Some have probably noticed for long that on microscopic images for the nasa rover, some 'spherules'
have dark dots, here is a black dot on the spherule that clearly MOVE from one day to the other !

http://tourlaville.nerim.net/spherulemovingdot.gif
This is probably VERY IMPORTANT to caracterise the spherules.

Made from two images of the same area taken Opportunity SOL46 (11:41am) and sol47 (11:37am)

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...P2937M2M1.HTML
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...P2957M2M1.HTML

MINERALS AND FOSSILS ARE UN-ANIMATED THINGs, SO WHAT iS THAT ??
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http://tourlaville.nerim.net/spherulemovingdot.gif


I have also made this anaglyph (red/cyan glasses) of the tri-spherule using the following
pair (SOL46 and 48).
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...P2956M2M1.HTML
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...P2937M2M1.HTML

The 3D is quite good, I hope you will enjoy it !
http://tourlaville.nerim.net/MArsTriSpherule.jpg

ERic
Life is life )

There you have it, absolute proof that spherules rock!

My first guess is that either the crater is very recent, and the
photochemical decomposition occurs at a very fast rate, or ... there are
a few powerful permanent magnet brushless DC actuator motors in the
instrument package, and the grains indeed are responding to their
magnetic fields.

One particular 'thread of grains' appears to stand right up!

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net