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[Shaka]

Hope no one minds, but I felt we have to have a new topic, right from the start, as a compendium of all the Factual Observations on this incredible structure...this Mother Ship from another world...this...(who said Burgess Shale? I laughed at that at the time. ) Who will start us off with a detailed description of what we see before us TODAY February 5, 2006 - Super Sunday.
(I'll be running from game to Exploratorium all afternoon!

[Bill Harris]

And the "dark layered rock", may be the light-toned layered rock with a dark weathered surface; I seem to recall seeing a break with a light interior. I've seen a "horticolor" image that suggests that the dark-toned rocks are a "dove gray" in color with no trace of the warmish ochre tone. We'll see when some L24567's come in. And there is the darker-toned somewhat granular rock below the finely layered unit.

Now that we have the Handlens and Scratchplate deployed we'll know more soon.

...I'm still thinking that this was an impact crater that developed a hot spring vent (possibly as a result of the impact cracking a route for pressurized water between a somewhat deep aquifer and the surface).

Deja VuVu: wasn't this somewhat similar to the (discarded) speculation about the Ultreya Abyss? Things go 'round and 'round. It's possible, these layered units are unusual.

--Bill