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Bye Bye Blueberries

Burmese View Member Profile	Oct 24 2005, 03:25 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 252 Joined: 27-April 05 Member No.: 365	According to Steve Squyres' latest journal entry, Opportunity is now seeing virtually -no- blueberries in the surface matrix anymore. "...On top of that, Opportunity has stumbled onto something really new and different lately... the blueberries seem to be gone!..." And a theory: "But one possible guess at this point is that we have moved "up section" in geologic terms -- to rocks that are higher up in this stack of layered sediments -- and that the rocks at this level never experienced the concretion-forming process. It's an interesting hypothesis with interesting implications, and it's also one that could explain a few other odd things we've been thinking about ever since Eagle crater" Looks like Oppy will stop for some intense IDD work in the next day or so.

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Burmese Bye Bye Blueberries Oct 24 2005, 03:25 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (Burmese @ Oct 24 2005, 05:25 PM)Looks ... Oct 24 2005, 03:37 PM

Tman Wow, it seems Erebus as the (maybe) highest place ... Oct 24 2005, 04:01 PM

paxdan I wonder if there is a correlation between the lac... Oct 24 2005, 05:07 PM

Richard Trigaux QUOTE (paxdan @ Oct 24 2005, 05:07 PM)I wonde... Oct 24 2005, 06:37 PM

Bill Harris Hmm, one gets so accustomed to seeing blueberries ... Oct 24 2005, 06:55 PM

CosmicRocker Wow, that took me by surprise, too. I looked back... Oct 25 2005, 05:59 AM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Oct 25 2005, 05:59 AM)A... Oct 25 2005, 07:43 PM

Bill Harris You-gottit, CR. I'd guess that this contact w... Oct 25 2005, 09:11 AM

CosmicRocker No doubt about it, the sol 617/618 outcrops were e... Oct 25 2005, 07:37 PM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Oct 25 2005, 07:37 PM)N... Oct 25 2005, 07:49 PM

Burmese One would think that the science team would -reall... Oct 25 2005, 08:17 PM

Bill Harris This area of the north rim of Erebus is darn inter... Oct 26 2005, 01:11 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 25 2005, 01:49 PM)Pe... Oct 26 2005, 04:21 AM

BruceMoomaw As far as I'm concerned, the single most intri... Oct 26 2005, 06:08 AM

dvandorn QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 26 2005, 01:08 AM)..... Oct 26 2005, 06:08 PM

Bill Harris Erebus may be up section, but OTOH, it may be down... Oct 26 2005, 08:21 AM

Tesheiner QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 26 2005, 10:21 AM)Da... Oct 26 2005, 08:53 AM

Myran Thank you for posting that information BruceMoomaw... Oct 26 2005, 04:31 PM

TheChemist Here is an article that explains how organics can ... Oct 26 2005, 08:58 PM

CosmicRocker Organic matter certainly could create locally redu... Oct 27 2005, 04:24 AM

TheChemist CR, I agree that organics do not appear to be nece... Oct 27 2005, 10:46 AM

jvandriel A panoramic view of bedrock and Blueberries around... Oct 27 2005, 10:32 AM

RNeuhaus TheChemist and CR: Your comments are very interest... Oct 27 2005, 02:10 PM

Bill Harris CR makes a good point and it is a plausible explan... Oct 28 2005, 10:51 AM

CosmicRocker I don't know, Bill. It really is curious that... Oct 29 2005, 05:52 AM

Bill Harris I don't think that this is A Great Conspiracy ... Oct 29 2005, 02:36 PM

CosmicRocker I wasn't implying any kind of conspiracy, Bill... Oct 30 2005, 06:32 PM

Phil Stooke CosmicRocker said: "All I can guess is that ... Oct 30 2005, 06:48 PM

Bill Harris I wasn't seriously thinking anything conspirat... Oct 30 2005, 11:14 PM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 30 2005, 11:14 PM)Or... Oct 30 2005, 11:22 PM

CosmicRocker You're absolutely correct, Phil. It could ver... Oct 31 2005, 06:15 AM

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