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Sep 12 2008, 08:34 PM
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Sep 12 2008, 11:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 |
Not crystal, and definitely not hair
It's a fiber from earth, and it looks to be 40-50 microns thick and 1.5-2 mm long. Sorry but I don't see anything interesting about it. |
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Sep 13 2008, 01:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
The most likely explanation is that it is something off of the spacecraft.. but playing the odds is so easy.
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Sep 13 2008, 02:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
The telltale has been quite active lately. Maybe it's a shred of that damaged material that was tossed about in the recent breezes.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Sep 13 2008, 04:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Not crystal ... For the record, I agree with you. The odds are that it is something from the spacecraft. But just to play the devil's advocate, what about an asbestos type of mineral? Those can be parted into fibrous pieces, can they not?
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Sep 13 2008, 05:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
The telltale has been quite active lately. Maybe it's a shred of that damaged material that was tossed about in the recent breezes. Wouldn't that be interesting? We've been seeing that apparently frayed bit of thread in thousands of telltale images for a long time. Still, it would be quite a coincidence.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Sep 13 2008, 05:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
It's a thread from one of Pathfinder's airbags.
Hey, it's had more than 10 years to get blown halfway across the planet, right? -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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Sep 13 2008, 11:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
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Sep 13 2008, 11:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 |
For the record, I agree with you. The odds are that it is something from the spacecraft. But just to play the devil's advocate, what about an asbestos type of mineral? Those can be parted into fibrous pieces, can they not? I like the devil thing myself, but, well, we are playing with odds here. Has any chrysotile been found near Phoenix ? My martian geology is nonexistant, but I googled this, where it says that chrysotile is "a hydrated magnesium ortho-silicate... " Are there such things around ? |
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Sep 13 2008, 01:45 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 27-June 08 From: Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. Member No.: 4244 |
Wouldn't that be interesting? We've been seeing that apparently frayed bit of thread in thousands of telltale images for a long time. Still, it would be quite a coincidence. I wonder if it is a fibre that somehow come off the WindTeller? I think it is. What are the odds of that being a fibre from Mars Pathfinder airbag? Billions to one against, Trillions to one against? Just a thought. Andrew Brown. -------------------- "I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.
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Sep 13 2008, 07:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
I believe it's some sort of Mars-originating object. Mineral, vegetable, or animal would all be interesting.
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Sep 13 2008, 07:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Let me know if it gives birth...
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Sep 14 2008, 05:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 17-July 07 From: Canberra Australia Member No.: 2865 |
On another forum Hortonheardawho posted a sol 74 image of this cell. No fibre in that image. I also note that the sample itself has changed to a degree in this later imaging. So either the strand comes internal to the OM system or they are trying to re-use cells. But if they were surely they would have said something. Wouldn't they?
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Sep 14 2008, 05:12 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
I like the devil thing myself, but, well, we are playing with odds here. A far as I know, these minerals have not yet been confirmed to exist on Mars. Since they are relatively common on Earth, I see no reason to doubt they could also be relatively common on Mars, despite the somewhat different geological histories of the planets. I think there are other geologists here who could offer more insight along those lines than I am able to provide. Has any chrysotile been found near Phoenix ? My martian geology is nonexistant, but I googled this, where it says that chrysotile is "a hydrated magnesium ortho-silicate... " Are there such things around ? But as you say, we are playing with odds here. During my lifetime, I have looked at a lot of samples of things under various microscopes, and I have very infrequently noticed fibrous impurities in mineral samples on Earth...and I never found an obvious chrysotile impurity in the sample, regardless of the fact that chrysotile is a relatively common mineral in the mines of Earth. For me, finding a microscopic fiber on Mars seems to strongly suggest that the thread took a ride from Earth, as all the previous fibers have. -------------------- ...Tom
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Sep 14 2008, 09:53 AM
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