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 Apr 29 2005, 10:52 AM
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Look at the MI campaign on this puppy
 It's got to be a 4 x 4 frame MI mosaic http://qt.exploratorium.edu:16080/mars/spi...cam/2005-04-28/ Doug |
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May 6 2005, 06:43 PM
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I'm curious about the "blue kryptonite". False color aside, its morphology is clearly different from the outcrop it's lying on (smoother for a start, implying newer? harder?) and it has odd swirly patterns on top. Can anyone suggest an origin? volcanic ejecta? meteorite fragment ?
And besides, if you look at earlier photos of the same rock, it appears to have a pretzel glued to one end ... http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...HEP2280L7M1.JPG -------------------- Popper: A party entertainment, filled with confetti and a small explosive charge.
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May 6 2005, 08:42 PM
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QUOTE (stevo @ May 6 2005, 01:43 PM) I'm curious about the "blue kryptonite". False color aside, its morphology is clearly different from the outcrop it's lying on (smoother for a start, implying newer? harder?) and it has odd swirly patterns on top. Can anyone suggest an origin? volcanic ejecta? meteorite fragment ? And besides, if you look at earlier photos of the same rock, it appears to have a pretzel glued to one end ... http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...HEP2280L7M1.JPG  Without any APXS, Mossbauer or mini-TES data, just from looking at the rock, I'd guess it's a chunk of basalt that was dropped onto the hills from some nearby impact. It's more resistant to erosion than the softer rock that makes up the bedded unit of which Methuselah is an outcrop (thereby attaining the "perched" appearance after underlying rock has eroded out from under it). Also, while I don't know what kind of false-color attributes this particular image has, similar false-color images out on the lava plains at Gusev have showed chunks of basalt highlighted in blue tones. So, if this image uses the same false-color assignations, I'd say the color suggests basalt. -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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djellison Methuselah Apr 29 2005, 10:52 AM
Sunspot http://planetary.org/news/2005/mer-udpate_0428.htm... Apr 29 2005, 11:03 AM OWW Here is one of those MI images already. Looks like... Apr 29 2005, 11:03 AM
chris I'm not a geologist, so I could be dead wrong,... Apr 29 2005, 11:38 AM gpurcell Looks like Pot of Gold to me as well.
Hopefully w... Apr 29 2005, 04:47 PM dilo QUOTE (gpurcell @ Apr 29 2005, 04:47 PM)Looks... May 2 2005, 10:55 PM deglr6328 I feel like some parts of those images are just te... Apr 30 2005, 09:44 PM glennwsmith I'd like to add my two cents worth to what Chr... May 1 2005, 02:07 AM glennwsmith Neato! May 3 2005, 02:31 AM dot.dk Moving on to a new target by the looks of it.
The... May 3 2005, 07:54 AM Burmese I wonder how this rock picked up that tidy circula... May 3 2005, 12:41 PM dvandorn QUOTE (Burmese @ May 3 2005, 07:41 AM)I wonde... May 3 2005, 06:30 PM JRehling QUOTE (dvandorn @ May 3 2005, 11:30 AM)QUOTE ... May 3 2005, 07:10 PM Jeff7 QUOTE (JRehling @ May 3 2005, 03:10 PM)QUOTE ... May 3 2005, 08:00 PM JRehling QUOTE (Jeff7 @ May 3 2005, 01:00 PM)QUOTE (JR... May 3 2005, 10:22 PM dvandorn QUOTE (JRehling @ May 3 2005, 05:22 PM)... May 3 2005, 11:51 PM dilo A couple of NavCam stitch mosaics from Sol473:
R... May 4 2005, 06:11 AM dilo Finally, Spirit found a chunk of blue Kryptonite l... May 6 2005, 06:25 AM helvick QUOTE (JRehling @ May 3 2005, 08:10 PM)... May 3 2005, 08:37 PM djellison RE: Methuselah May 3 2005, 07:51 PM Sunspot There was some suggestion that meteorites impactin... May 3 2005, 10:17 PM Sunspot Looks like they've driven round to the other s... May 6 2005, 12:18 PM dilo QUOTE (dvandorn @ May 6 2005, 08:42 PM)[Also,... May 7 2005, 11:38 AM dilo Amazing outcrops views on Sol477... Technically,... May 8 2005, 09:41 PM Tman QUOTE (dilo @ May 8 2005, 11:41 PM)Amazing ou... May 9 2005, 07:26 AM ustrax Dilo...Have you seen the spidery looking rock on t... May 9 2005, 02:56 PM dilo QUOTE (Tman @ May 9 2005, 07:26 AM)Hey Marco,... May 9 2005, 06:54 PM dilo Sol479 true color PanCam images, top context based... May 10 2005, 06:06 AM Edward Schmitz QUOTE (stevo @ May 6 2005, 11:43 AM)I'm c... May 10 2005, 03:10 AM Tman QUOTE (Edward Schmitz @ May 10 2005, 05:10 AM... May 10 2005, 09:29 AM dvandorn QUOTE (Tman @ May 10 2005, 04:29 AM)QUOTE (Ed... May 10 2005, 05:02 PM alan Larry, Curly and Moe
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/m... May 10 2005, 01:56 AM lyford QUOTE (alan @ May 9 2005, 05:56 PM)Larry, Cur... May 10 2005, 02:59 AM Bob Shaw Presumably they'll eventually run out of names... May 10 2005, 12:07 PM YesRushGen QUOTE (lyford @ May 9 2005, 09:59 PM)QUOTE (a... May 10 2005, 03:21 PM MahFL http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...B2P24... May 12 2005, 03:44 PM slinted Either the odd rock or the underlying layers caugh... Jun 14 2005, 11:45 PM |
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