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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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To: corkoman
It would be nice for someone at JPL/Nasa to place a measurement bar on that image . . .A similar microscopic image from Spirit captured an area of 1.2" sq. Spirit's first microscopic images
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:29:16 PM PST
by
Phil V.
To: djf
No trilobites? I'm holding out for the T. Rex skeleton.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:29:25 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(Spirit/Opportunity~0.002acres of sovereign US territory~All Your Mars Are Belong To US)
To: Phil V.
Those things look biological...
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:29:54 PM PST
by
GeronL
(www.ArmorforCongress.com ............... Support a FReeper for Congress)
To: corkoman
It would be nice for someone at JPL/Nasa to place a measurement bar on that image - that could be a beach ball for all we can tell.
Excellent point, I was thinking the same thing. Even the best data is meaningless without an appropriate frame of reference.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:30:16 PM PST
by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: Freedom4US
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"Miles and Miles and Miles" =
Apollo 14 Moonman/Golfer SHEPPARD
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:31:23 PM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com.)
To: Starve The Beast
The first microscopic image from Spirit captured 1.2" sq.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:32:16 PM PST
by
Phil V.
To: Phil V.
TY... so that's this image? 1.2 inches square?
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:35:08 PM PST
by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: Starve The Beast
I haven't been able to find a good pic but earth microtektites have been described as sometimes being "disc shaped."
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:36:40 PM PST
by
John H K
To: Starve The Beast
Depends on whether or not the camera was the same distance from the soil. But probably that's close to the size of the patch of soil.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:37:37 PM PST
by
Phil V.
Comment #50 Removed by Moderator
To: Young Werther
MARTIAN DIATOMS! or.... perhaps, MARTIAN DIAPHRAGMS!
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:43:10 PM PST
by
marvlus
To: Phil V.
the spots remind me of lime grains and powdered lime.
To: Phil V.
Clutch/pressure plate assembly. 1968 Dodge Dart.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:46:45 PM PST
by
JOE6PAK
("The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein)
To: William Weatherford
Perhaps the bright spots in the panaramic shot are the mama Diatom's?
Aha! AHA! Primordia! Pinheads! I'm telling you
Martian Shroons tm. are going to go big. Sure there's the
transportation problem, and the quarantine thing but those
are just details.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:47:48 PM PST
by
tet68
To: William Weatherford
Seems to be a ton of em...
To: Phil V.
Volcanic ejecta, or once molten bolide fragments, vesicles due to entrapped gas.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:50:57 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
It appears as though the upper right "sphere" casts a shadow . . . as though most of it is above surface or at least half exposed.
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posted on
02/03/2004 6:56:28 PM PST
by
Phil V.
To: Professional Engineer
Think they oughta get that puppy to the rocky outcroppings asap. We might never get another chance, hell, there's soil over there too.
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posted on
02/03/2004 7:10:26 PM PST
by
djf
To: marvlus
So now we have to search for the KY Jelly?
That's quite an Opportunity to get into the Spirit of things.
To: tet68
Aha! AHA! Primordia! Pinheads! I'm telling you Martian Shroons tm. are going to go big.
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posted on
02/03/2004 7:11:52 PM PST
by
adam_az
(Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
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