[Dead Corpse]

Either that is some EXTREMELY fine sand, or that stuff is WET. You can see some clumping along the edges of the tire tread marks. Like what you would get driving a truck with mudders on it through a damp patch of dirt.

Or is that wishful thinking?

[xsrdx]

You can see some clumping along the edges of the tire tread marks

NASA geologist have so far been stumped by this characteritic of martian soil - same thing showed up in pictures of the impact area, where the outer "balloons" landed; the soil displayed some strange attributes when compressed.

[xsrdx]

You can see some clumping along the edges of the tire tread marks

NASA geologists have so far been stumped by this characteritic of martian soil - same thing showed up in pictures of the impact area, where the outer "balloons" landed; the soil displayed some strange attributes when compressed.

[cogitator]

Either that is some EXTREMELY fine sand, or that stuff is WET. You can see some clumping along the edges of the tire tread marks.

It's very cohesive, but so was the Moon dust. Remember what the footprints looked like? Still, this stuff does have a different composition, but right at the surface it can't be particularly wet, the vapor pressure in the Martian atmosphere is too low. There might be a bit of water below the surface, which is something that they want to find out.

[Constantine XIII]

We'll know if the wind kicks up a bit, eh? :)