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Dec 16 2005, 05:35 PM
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Dec 25 2005, 07:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
If the light is right, you might expect to see specular reflections from almost any clean rock surface, since most are composed of the cemented grains of individual mineral crystals. I'd be surprized if this was a basalt, though.
It could be a salt crystal, but it could really be most any kind of crystal. There's no telling, and no way to know what it is with the instruments available on the rover. All we can know is that it is a flat, reflective surface that sent a ray of sunlight into lens of the camera. -------------------- ...Tom
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