Continuing into Glenelg, Leaving Rocknest behind, sols 102-166 (Nov 18 2012-Jan 23, 2013) |
Continuing into Glenelg, Leaving Rocknest behind, sols 102-166 (Nov 18 2012-Jan 23, 2013) |
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Before you go off the deep end arm-waving about Gale geology, I suggest you visit the MSL FAQ thread and follow the links to resources on Gale geomorphology, geology, composition, etc. This is not a dried-up lakebed. It's an erosionally exposed surface. Also, CRISM didn't measure thermal inertia, THEMIS did. Curiosity can, and will, ground-truth orbital observations.
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I suggest you visit the MSL FAQ thread and follow the links to resources on Gale geomorphology, geology, composition, etc. Good advice, but some of us have done that and still have active questions about what we're so lucky to be seeing now. Those papers make only very limited statements, given the detail we have before us. The fact is that the true nature of the high thermal inertia unit and the Gale crater central mound are still not conclusively understood. Curiosity will indeed provide new ground truth which will be reported eventually in scientific journals, but in the meantime we cannot help but speculate as we take in the view. I think there is room to air ideas here as long as they are well grounded in existing evidence. |
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