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 Jul 23 2004, 08:00 PM
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http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/mi...00P2959M2M1.JPG
In the latest micoscopic imager pics of the post rated bedrock, there appear to be what llook like darker "grains" within the rock. Take a look at the image in the link above and see what you think. They appear towards the bottom right of the image. |
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May 5 2006, 06:39 PM
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Woah, hold up.
This thread is from July of 2004! However, there are some new images at the Exploratorium. Link. Spirit has been busy doing something. A bit messy perhaps, but something nonetheless. |
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May 5 2006, 06:44 PM
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I cannot help but look at those images you link to and think:
"Wet beach sand." -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 8 2006, 12:57 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 5 2006, 07:44 PM)  I cannot help but look at those images you link to and think: "Wet beach sand." I know what you mean. And then I shake myself and remind myself of images like this, "obviously" soaking wet soil, sticking together like wet sand under pressure.  ...It's an in-situ photograph from an Apollo lunar surface camera...and rather like the effect we see in many disturbed regolith MER images. Andy G |
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Sunspot Bedrock Under The Microscope Jul 23 2004, 08:00 PM
dvandorn I see what you're talking about -- almost look... Jul 24 2004, 06:41 PM
Shaka QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jul 24 2004, 08:41 AM) ... May 5 2006, 06:15 PM Sunspot Not sure which of the "RAT" holes that p... Jul 25 2004, 08:48 AM ljk4-1 I wonder if this could be fitted on a lander at so... May 5 2006, 03:41 PM climber Spirit has been busy doing something. A bit messy ... May 5 2006, 08:08 PM Shaka QUOTE (climber @ May 5 2006, 10:08 AM) Th... May 5 2006, 08:18 PM Jeff7 QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 5 2006, 02:44 PM... May 5 2006, 09:18 PM Shaka doh! May 5 2006, 07:20 PM |
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