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  Mar 2 2004, 04:27 PM
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Look at new Opportunity Pancam image:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...34P2536L6M1.JPG Middle-Left you can see: A Martian Marble sitting on a "Stem". It's very clear by the shadow the thing is casting. Wow ! |
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Mar 11 2004, 11:10 AM
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I've not seen anything that would suggest biology at all - but plenty of things that can form geologically.
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chaosman Marble On Stem Mar 2 2004, 04:27 PM
djellison Not totally unexpected feature - especially with t... Mar 2 2004, 04:32 PM Shimon I can see several similar "marbles with stems... Mar 2 2004, 05:41 PM chaosman Yeah,
wind blown erosion is an option.
Biology a... Mar 2 2004, 10:04 PM djellison You seem to think that they'd avoid any chance... Mar 2 2004, 10:30 PM chaosman Sorry for my misleading statement "came up wi... Mar 2 2004, 11:07 PM chaosman "You seem to think that they'd avoid any ... Mar 2 2004, 11:11 PM lars_J It has nothing to do with being "allowed... Mar 3 2004, 01:32 AM chaosman It certanly wouldn't make sense to try to dig ... Mar 3 2004, 10:12 AM EckJerome First up...dj, great forum, great images. Thanks... Mar 3 2004, 04:56 PM djellison Thanks
Of course, we never know what is over the... Mar 3 2004, 06:21 PM Shimon Have you seen the "rotini" picture
http:... Mar 3 2004, 09:28 PM DavidVicari QUOTE I think the brilliant success of these missi... Mar 4 2004, 08:08 AM djellison Well - of course, Phoenix is just the 2001 lander ... Mar 4 2004, 10:31 AM paulanderson I've posted a zoomed crop of another and bette... Mar 5 2004, 08:11 AM Wes I've been percolating on these spherules for a... Mar 6 2004, 01:23 AM chaosman NASA thinks that both Meteor Strike and Vulcanism ... Mar 6 2004, 07:57 AM Shimon http://www.aboh44.ukgateway.net/gallery/jordan4.ht... Mar 6 2004, 12:56 PM chaosman That doesn't even come close to the marbles...... Mar 6 2004, 02:06 PM djellison I've been to the dead sea, and it just looks l... Mar 6 2004, 03:44 PM chaosman Look at the attached image "shell_structures... Mar 8 2004, 11:18 AM jmknapp I think that the "hollow" effect is a ve... Mar 8 2004, 02:27 PM chaosman Huh..the color didn't came through.
This look... Mar 8 2004, 07:53 PM chaosman Here is the attached image again. Mar 8 2004, 08:09 PM lars_J There appears to be several spherules in the dirt ... Mar 8 2004, 09:23 PM chaosman Very interesting indeed.
Seems that we have a cou... Mar 9 2004, 11:37 AM djellison Leaf like?
You mean the one that's split in t... Mar 9 2004, 11:43 AM chaosman Where do you see two ( one split in two ) ? I only... Mar 9 2004, 12:39 PM djellison QUOTE (chaosman @ Mar 9 2004, 12:39 PM)Where ... Mar 9 2004, 01:41 PM chaosman Well O.K.: Lets say "disc like f... Mar 9 2004, 09:20 PM chaosman A pretty good summary/discussion of the "biol... Mar 9 2004, 10:28 PM Wes This is cross-posted from another forum I have par... Mar 10 2004, 05:13 AM chaosman hmmm...that is...well...it seems a little bit ... Mar 10 2004, 11:51 PM Wes Well I'm not against finding life on Mars, I w... Mar 11 2004, 10:56 AM Wes Oh, and by the way, the odds that the spherules ac... Mar 11 2004, 11:17 AM lars_J QUOTE I'm sure life "happened" elsew... Mar 11 2004, 02:47 PM chaosman Well nobody knows about the probability that life ... Mar 11 2004, 06:14 PM lars_J Here's a 3D anaglyph of the "marble stem... Mar 11 2004, 08:22 PM
Shimon This is a great discussion. In the absence of defi... Mar 13 2004, 07:58 PM |
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