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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Rock Fingers on Mars
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 20 Jun, 2022 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS

Posted on 06/20/2022 1:28:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: There, just right of center, what is that? The surface of Mars keeps revealing new surprises with the recent discovery of finger-like rock spires. The small nearly-vertical rock outcrops were imaged last month by the robotic Curiosity rover on Mars. Although similar in size and shape to small snakes, the leading explanation for their origin is as conglomerations of small minerals left by water flowing through rock crevices. After these relatively dense minerals filled the crevices, they were left behind when the surrounding rock eroded away. Famous rock outcrops on Earth with a similar origin are called hoodoos. NASA's Curiosity Rover continues to search for new signs of ancient water in Gale Crater on Mars, while also providing a geologic background important for future human exploration.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 06/20/2022 1:28:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 06/20/2022 1:29:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 06/20/2022 1:29:39 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Those aren't rock fingers.
But those Martian snakes look dangerous.

These are rock fingers.
His playing is out of this world. < P>

4 posted on 06/20/2022 1:32:30 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

definitely not as interesting as this might be

5 posted on 06/20/2022 1:50:10 PM PDT by algore
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Looks more like something you’d find in a Vaxxed blood sample.


6 posted on 06/20/2022 1:51:02 PM PDT by conservaDave
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To: MtnClimber

If it starts moving after you start digging it up...run for your life!


7 posted on 06/20/2022 1:55:29 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: MtnClimber

I bet those Martian hoo doos are full of gold nuggets. A plaser miners dream!


8 posted on 06/20/2022 1:55:31 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: MtnClimber

Looks kinda like the little guys in Men In Black drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes in the break room.


9 posted on 06/20/2022 2:45:25 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: MtnClimber

Those are Mars Chameleons. The Mars astronauts will find they are vicious and will strip em clean to the bone.


10 posted on 06/20/2022 3:23:40 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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I was thinking that they could be giant sand worms.


11 posted on 06/20/2022 3:50:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: DannyTN

I have tickets! Boston Garden in September.

Eric has been on my Bucket List for 50 YEARS.


12 posted on 06/20/2022 4:19:40 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: left that other site

I got to see him in Nashville in sometime before 2018. Not sure what year. Great Concert. They had the big screens up so they could zoom in on the guitar work. Awesome.

I think he is coming back here in September, but I’m still laying low.


13 posted on 06/20/2022 4:28:53 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

My two sisters and i are going...Girls’ Night Out! :-)


14 posted on 06/20/2022 4:36:55 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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Either way you will be eaten!!


15 posted on 06/20/2022 5:12:36 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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