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[tedstryk]

http://barsoom.msss.com/mars_images/moc/20...1/03/index.html

Some cool new view of Spirt's path from MGS. You can actually follow its tracks from the lander to the hills.

[MizarKey]

Did they know at the time that they were driving in the path of where a dust devil had been? Between the time they left Bonneville to the time they got to the hills they traveled in two separate dust devil tracks.

The attached image is a crop from the larger MGS image. I've marked the spot where I think Spirit crossed over from one devil track to another, but it's a little hard to tell and I'm not sure I got the right spot.

Also...from the ground the path to the hills looked like undulating mini hills...but according to the overhead it's a bunch of craters everywhere you look. So how many of the rocks that caused the craters were from asteroids (like most meteorites we get here on Earth) and how many were from local events such as volcanoes? Are most of the rocks that were studied considered Mars related crust or part of the many impactors? Did we even look at any impactor fragments?

Probably should have started a different thread for the last bit...

Eric P / MizarKey

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