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To: Wneighbor; Fedora; Professional Engineer
By using a Mössbauer Spectrometer mounted on Opportunity's robot arm, a patch of the tiny spherules -- also called "blueberries," although they aren't blue -- received close examination and have now been identified as hematite.

Hematite! Cool!

1,089 posted on 03/17/2004 9:10:09 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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Well, before I funkle, I am gonna say adios, and noche buena. Time to see what the sandman has in store for my entertainment tonight.

Night all.
1,090 posted on 03/17/2004 9:12:32 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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To: msdrby
Hematite! Cool!

It's hematite, Solyent Berries are hematite!

1,127 posted on 03/18/2004 6:51:03 AM PST by Professional Engineer (3/11/04 saw the launching of the Moorish reconquest of Spain.)
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