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Interesting photograph.
March 13, 2004
I am crossposting this because it is so darn cool. jacob navia wrote: At the Mars Path Finder site, you can see a rock covered with small blue round stuff. http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/...atsuperres.jpg They didn't carry a microscope that time. Sejourner was just too small. Now *that* is pretty darn interesting. Meet 'Barnacle Bill' : http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/...nsPanglyph.jpg Here is the available spectroscopy. http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/ops/apxs-bb1.html http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/...x-res2-ox.html Looks like there are a lot of 'spherule' producing 'rocks' in the area. http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/...rnacleBill.jpg And finally, we have 'Chimp' : http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/ops/Sol72_Chimp.gif Remember, we now think this is on the top layer of sediment of a flood plain leading into a former ocean. http://mars.sgi.com/science/mineralogy.html "If they are fully crystalline igneous rocks," "We do not presently know whether these are igneous (crystallized from a melt), sedimentary (grains/fragments deposited by wind or water or precipitates), or metamorphic rocks (deformed)." Andesite my ass. Yet another Hap McSween screwup. Welcome to the new Mars. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net |
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