Posted on 04/02/2015 12:08:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Currently studying the Pahrump Hills region at the base of Mount Sharp in the center of Gale Crater, this new view snapped by Curiosity on March 18 shows a work site Curiositys mission scientists call Garden City. This area is interesting as it shows two-tone mineral veins protruding from the surrounding rock.
The tough mineral veins were formed in Mars ancient wet past and they are sticking out of the rock up to 6 centimeters (2.5 inches) high. This means that the veins formed within the rock and the softer surrounding bedrock has since eroded away.
When comparing the geology of this particular area with the rocks that Curiosity has analysed in lower sections of Mount Sharp, a story emerges Mars ancient geological history.
Some of (the mineral veins) look like ice-cream sandwiches: dark on both edges and white in the middle, said Linda Kah, Curiosity science-team member at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory news release. These materials tell us about secondary fluids that were transported through the region after the host rock formed.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
So they have absolutely no idea if it is worth much or anything and considering the cost to get there it is worth nothing.
“Jackpot” in what sense? Scientific discovery I can see but not really a jackpot... Significant scientific discovery, yes.
Misleading headline. I’m quibbling I know but I’m in a foul mood about being misled and deception and foolishness in general.
So that's where they come from ...
The tough mineral veins were formed in Mars' ancient wet past......which ironically is entirely imaginary. The wet Martian past meme resembles the global warming drumbeat. Extra to APoD.
Even if there were gold nodules all over the ground, the cost of the mars mission would exceed the value of what they could bring back. More important would be iron and other metallic ores - stuff that would be useful if we established a permanent colony.
I’ll believe the “wet past” when they find shale.
Obviously Kryptonite.
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(We’ll mine the other planets later.)
Or maybe fossilized remains of a scuba-diver.
New findings could dash hopes for past oceans on Mars
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/968094/posts
Report: Mars Cold, Bitter Planet for a Long, Long Time
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1448047/posts?page=29#29
Scientists Found Life On Mars Back In The 70s
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1885663/posts
Another fossilized Martian ...
Thank you for the extra to the APoD.
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