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Stu
post Dec 6 2009, 08:20 AM
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I was looking through "MARS 3D" last night... again... and found a picture taken on Sol 736, of a rock called "Gong Gong" that caught my eye, because it looked a lot like some of the objects Oppy has been finding over on Meridiani recently. I went to the raw images site and made a colourisation from them...

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... more and more familiar...

Checked up on the rock tho, and Steve Squyres said this in one of his updates:

"The name of this thing is GongGong, and it is what can happen when you have a very frothy, gas-rich lava that solidifies with lots of voids in it and then gets eroded by the wind for a very long time."

Anyone else thinks it looks like a badly eroded meteorite, like the ones Oppy has recently been collecting?



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- Stu   Gong Gong   Dec 6 2009, 08:20 AM
- - nprev   Yeah, actually...good memory & great colorizat...   Dec 6 2009, 09:04 AM
|- - PaulM   QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 6 2009, 10:04 AM) it s...   Dec 6 2009, 09:48 AM
- - Stu   Thanks Paul, really appreciate your post, very enl...   Dec 6 2009, 10:05 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   I think the difference between Gong Gong and the M...   Dec 6 2009, 03:36 PM
- - fredk   Definitely a resemblence - thanks for reminding us...   Dec 6 2009, 04:59 PM
- - Oersted   Styu, great that you remembered this rock and inqu...   Dec 9 2009, 12:42 PM

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