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Opportunity finds a new type of rock, sol 886 Microscopic Imager near Beagle crater |
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 Jul 24 2006, 06:24 AM
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On sol 886 Oppy's microscopic imager takes shots of a new type of stone previously unseen in Meridiani planum. This place was already shot on sol 885 by the Panoramic Camera, showing a patch of soil looking like gravel.
These stones are clear, chalky looking, with angulous fractures, but slighty rounded as if transported for a while in a river bed. They also show some hollows or veins in some places. In the background there are small more or less rounded stones evoking the smaller blueberries already seen in the beginning. So I wonder what these stones could be. The most conservative explanation would be that they are freshly broken jarosite, submitted to a bit of eolian erosion. But other explanations are possible. We shall remain in the expectative until some analysis is done. |
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Aug 2 2006, 02:27 AM
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Richard Trigaux Opportunity finds a new type of rock Jul 24 2006, 06:24 AM
Bill Harris Can you point out specific rock in the MI images? ... Jul 24 2006, 12:35 PM
Richard Trigaux QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Jul 24 2006, 12:35 P... Jul 24 2006, 07:51 PM dilo Are we talking of this strange, blue/gray rock pic... Jul 24 2006, 09:33 PM Bill Harris Ah, I see what you mean. During the UMSF outage t... Jul 24 2006, 10:02 PM Pavel Anyone remembers Wopmay, the brain-like rock in En... Jul 24 2006, 10:56 PM Stephen QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 24 2006, 06... Jul 25 2006, 03:21 AM Richard Trigaux Dilo, I was not speaking of this bluish rock. But ... Jul 25 2006, 04:55 AM CosmicRocker These are the same as the ones I earlier mentioned... Jul 25 2006, 05:16 AM Richard Trigaux CosmicRocker, I was speaking of the same rocks you... Jul 25 2006, 08:32 AM Myran Hello back again from one day without UMSC, with b... Jul 25 2006, 03:18 PM Bill Harris Time for a Meridiani lithology refresher. Drop by... Jul 25 2006, 09:39 PM glennwsmith Friends,
As an old flint knapper, I'm not goi... Jul 26 2006, 03:55 AM Bill Harris It's hard to tell anything about the surface n... Jul 26 2006, 06:14 PM dvandorn The rock in question, in the MI images, looks like... Jul 27 2006, 03:45 AM Richard Trigaux Inpact melt?
I don't think that jarosite can ... Jul 27 2006, 06:29 AM imipak QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 27 2006, 07... Jul 27 2006, 06:08 PM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (imipak @ Jul 27 2006, 06:08 PM) Ox... Jul 27 2006, 06:30 PM imipak QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 27 2006, 07... Jul 27 2006, 06:38 PM tty QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 27 2006, 08... Jul 28 2006, 10:55 AM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (tty @ Jul 28 2006, 10:55 AM) There... Jul 28 2006, 12:54 PM tty QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 28 2006, 02... Aug 1 2006, 07:18 PM Bill Harris I'm not sure what the sulfate evaporites do wh... Jul 27 2006, 12:41 PM CosmicRocker The place where I got lost in this discussion was ... Jul 28 2006, 06:23 AM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Jul 28 2006, 06:23 ... Jul 28 2006, 12:40 PM Bill Harris As I recall, the majority of the rocks here are ma... Jul 28 2006, 12:51 PM tglotch QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Jul 28 2006, 12:51 P... Jul 28 2006, 08:46 PM CosmicRocker tglotch: Thanks for that. Those are similar to t... Jul 29 2006, 03:59 AM Bill Harris Is there any idea of what the silicates are? I do... Jul 29 2006, 05:27 PM tglotch The Mini-TES data indicate that the majority of th... Jul 29 2006, 09:03 PM Zeke4ther Tim,
Welcome to the forum! We will all look... Jul 31 2006, 08:02 PM Bill Harris Thanks, Tim. By terrestrial experience, it would ... Aug 1 2006, 03:07 PM CosmicRocker QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 1 2006, 10:07 AM... Aug 2 2006, 02:24 AM tglotch Bill,
The feldspar used in the Mini-TES deconvolu... Aug 1 2006, 03:41 PM Bill Harris Thanks, Tim. Eventually we'll be able to reco... Aug 1 2006, 11:06 PM |
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