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Daily Updates - March 10, 2004
Opportunity Status for sol 45
Halfway Mark
posted Mar. 10, 4:15 pm PST
On sol 45, which ended at 12:50 p.m. PST on Wednesday, March 10, Opportunity awoke to ''Eclipse" by Pink Floyd in recognition . . . . blah . . . blah . . . blah . . .
The plan for sol 46, which will end at 1:30 p.m. PST on Thursday, March 11, is to use the science instruments on the end of the robotic arm on the area dubbed "Berry Bowl." =====================================
At this point it gets more intersting IMO . . . Another freeper directed me to this photo and asked my opiniion . . .
This was my reply . . .
see what you mean! I am eagerly anticipating more photos from this area that will hopefully yield another of the same area but shifted to allow a true 3-d. I tried to "tease" a 3-d from the ones available but I suspect that I've only created an illusion of depth here . . .
Notice in the upper left what appear to be "threads" between the two adjacent "berrys". . . . and of course the object of your interest (I assume) in the center.
Here is another example of what I theorize is related to what you have noticed . . . an indent in the rock that I noticed several days ago and surmized that at one time a "berry" was attached as I theorize was the case in the picture you brought to my attention . . .
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Clearly (to me at least) the "berrys" cannot all be explained as the product of volcanic or meteor blast. Why the "stems"???
Thanks for bringing this to my attetion. I'll be looking for NASA/JPL to brush this area and photograph the results of "picking blueberrys". If they do not then they're missing the boat!!!
