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Old January 14th 04, 07:39 AM
Archimedes Plutonium
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Default Mars probe sees a mesa in distance; does it show Strata of rock??

I suppose it would have been too risky to try to land the probe at a
site that had exposed rock layers of strata of rock and that the
mission to go as well as it has to land more or less on a level pile
of sand. According to the news the probe can not reach the distant
Mesa that it sees but perhaps the camera can get a close up shot of
the Mesa.

I wonder whether the very best site for the probe would have been a
Mesa with a strata layering of rock. I remember when I was in College
that the geology field trips usually went for exposed rock layers. In
that strata are like pages in a book to understand the past history.

I wonder if that distant Mesa that the probe has spotted whether the
camera can zoom in and see whether there is a layering that is black
like coal. I wonder if the probe has some equipment that can
distinguish coal from other types of rock? Or whether the probe can
distinguish dark black rock but not tell whether it is coal.

I suppose we can only be patient.

Still no-one has answered my other question as to how much uranium
would exist on the Moon?

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