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 Nov 27 2007, 06:25 PM
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As we all know, Martian meteorite ALH84001 has interesting structures that have now been debated endlessly as to their origins. The more interesting point, however, is that these structures occur within carbonate inclusions in the rock.
Carbonate Martian rocks have generally not been found from orbit by remote sensing equipment. And in ALH84001, the carbonate "nuggets" are rather tiny inclusions. If there *are* carbonate rocks on Mars, how the heck do we find them? And if they tend to exist merely as tiny inclusions in other rocks, how do we analyze them (or even see that they're there) in situ? -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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dvandorn Martian carbonates Nov 27 2007, 06:25 PM
dburt QUOTE (dvandorn @ Nov 27 2007, 11:25 AM) ... Nov 27 2007, 08:26 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (dburt @ Nov 27 2007, 03:26 PM) ...... Nov 27 2007, 09:31 PM edstrick For some reason, "au natural" CCD's ... Nov 28 2007, 09:15 AM dburt But they are more sensitive to near-IR (just above... Nov 28 2007, 06:02 PM edstrick Yep. It's an odd coincindence... CCD's sp... Nov 30 2007, 11:22 AM marsbug Can't say how important this is but it's c... Dec 29 2007, 06:27 PM dvandorn Well.
We seem to have, if not an answer, at least... Oct 4 2008, 05:11 PM Julius Full inline quote removed - seriously - the quote ... Oct 5 2008, 09:08 AM marsbug QUOTE B. For a given range of estimates of (A.) ab... Oct 5 2008, 11:56 AM dvandorn We don't see this admixture of carbonates from... Oct 5 2008, 05:47 PM tty QUOTE I wonder if there are any impact craters on ... Oct 5 2008, 06:01 PM ngunn We are well within the recently revived putative s... Oct 5 2008, 06:11 PM dvandorn Well, see, that's one of the things I'm ta... Oct 5 2008, 06:28 PM ngunn All your questions are excellent oDoug. I was just... Oct 5 2008, 07:03 PM Fran Ontanaya From Wikipedia:
"Secondary calcite may also ... Oct 5 2008, 07:52 PM ngunn Thanks, I'll start with those. The question is... Oct 5 2008, 09:20 PM Fran Ontanaya http://www.springerlink.com/content/e4n0vul0gcpxq6... Oct 5 2008, 10:30 PM ngunn Thanks for catching me up on all that Fran.
So - ... Oct 6 2008, 08:55 AM marsbug The ocean is still a speculative idea. I would hav... Oct 6 2008, 11:27 AM Vultur Assuming a lack of shellfish or coral ... does thi... Oct 6 2008, 09:17 PM  |
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