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Rover OPPORTUNITY microscopic image . . . Martian soil . . . feel free to speculate
NASA - JPL ^
| 02-03-2004
| NASA/JPL
Posted on 02/03/2004 5:46:10 PM PST by Phil V.
Microscopic Imager Non-linearized Full frame EDR aquired on Sol 10 of Opportunity's mission to Meridiani Planum at approximately 11:26:27 Mars local solar time, Microscopic Imager dust cover commanded to be OPEN. NASA/JPL/Cornell/USGS
What's with the roundish grains?
1) Pyroclastic/volcanic origin
2) fungus colony
3) beach sand
4) Aldrin's golf ball
5) corrupt data
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KEYWORDS: mars; nasa; rover; rovers; space
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:46:11 PM PST
by
Phil V.
To: xm177e2; XBob; wirestripper; whattajoke; VOR78; Virginia-American; Vinnie_Vidi_Vici; VadeRetro; ...
If you'd like to be on or off this MARS ping list please FRail me
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:46:54 PM PST
by
Phil V.
To: Phil V.
Neolithic rock beads?
Looks like things I see on the beach.
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:50:57 PM PST
by
blam
To: Phil V.
fascinating
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:51:21 PM PST
by
mylife
To: Phil V.
Some of that could be melt spatter sphereules from impacts.
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:52:27 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(The SCARES will haunt the mind, eventually inducing derangement and senility!)
To: Phil V.
Hey, Marvin rolled a "two"!
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:52:31 PM PST
by
John H K
To: Phil V.
Ejecta?
To: Phil V.
Diatom in the upper right hand corner? Could be beach sand. I guess I need my pail and shovel!
To: Darksheare
Tektites?
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:54:41 PM PST
by
John H K
To: Phil V.
Diatoms?
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:54:47 PM PST
by
blam
To: Phil V.
Martian Diatoms!
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:55:07 PM PST
by
steplock
(www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
To: Phil V.
I see a gold nugget!
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:55:36 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Miserable Failure</a>)
To: John H K
The search for life on Mars is just a crap shoot...
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:56:48 PM PST
by
mikrofon
To: John H K
I would expect some on Mars.
We've found similar spheres on Earth created by impacts.
Without detailed lab style eyeballing them, I'm not sure we'd be able to tell at the moment whether or not they are tektites or not.
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:57:00 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(The SCARES will haunt the mind, eventually inducing derangement and senility!)
To: Phil V.
If you stare at it long enough it says HELLO EARTHLINGS in 3-D. </kidding>
Æ
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:57:46 PM PST
by
AgentEcho
(If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers)
To: John H K
That beats the ace rolled by the guy with the round die.
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:58:21 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Miserable Failure</a>)
To: Young Werther
Diatom?
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:58:42 PM PST
by
blam
To: Darksheare
With the little vesicular holes in them?
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posted on
02/03/2004 5:59:51 PM PST
by
John H K
To: Phil V.
Holy moly! The mind boggles!
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:00:57 PM PST
by
hershey
To: John H K
I've seen melt spatter spheres with little holes in them.
But, that is a REAL weird sphere there.
*chuckle*
If it IS something analogous of a diatom, that would be interesting.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:02:38 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(The SCARES will haunt the mind, eventually inducing derangement and senility!)
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