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To: Piltdown_Woman
ping
To: Fitzcarraldo
A Martian that lost his marbles?
To: Fitzcarraldo
4 posted on
02/07/2004 8:00:25 AM PST by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
6 posted on
02/07/2004 8:02:29 AM PST by
martin_fierro
(Oriental by Occident)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Nice. Thanks for posting it.
7 posted on
02/07/2004 8:02:57 AM PST by
EggsAckley
(..................**AMEND** the Fourteenth Amendment......(There, is THAT better?).................)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Too cool! I am thinking lithophysae also. But perfectly rounded?
8 posted on
02/07/2004 8:10:01 AM PST by
doodad
To: Fitzcarraldo
FINALLY, a source for Unobtanium!
9 posted on
02/07/2004 8:10:25 AM PST by
adam_az
(Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
" The conventional wisdom during the early part of the century was that these pisoliths were formed by the action of algae growing over the surface of fine grains. The grains became larger as the algae facilitated chemical precipitation of lime (calcium carbonate) and/or the capture of fine sediments. As the grains were rolled around by moving water, growth would take place on all sides producing a somewhat spherical pisolith."
Means life or water?...
To: Fitzcarraldo
It's GOLD! Gold I tell yuh!! GOLD!!!
To: Fitzcarraldo
Pretty neat!
Is there some frickin' reason we can't get a color pic of this from NASA? I want to see the layering (and everything else) in color.
13 posted on
02/07/2004 8:14:50 AM PST by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Fitzcarraldo
That looks like a dry creek bed.
14 posted on
02/07/2004 8:15:19 AM PST by
painter
To: Fitzcarraldo
No way, too uniform in shape.
To: Fitzcarraldo
Look closely in the lower right corner...
Do you see it?
An arrowhead and a scraper!
19 posted on
02/07/2004 8:18:17 AM PST by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and there is the face of Islam!)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Sorry, once again can't help myself!
20 posted on
02/07/2004 8:18:42 AM PST by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
I can't wait to get up there with my pan and shovel!
To: Fitzcarraldo
25 posted on
02/07/2004 8:24:19 AM PST by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
IIRC there are frequent dust storms on Mars. Could it be that particles rolled along the ground by a strong wind eventually wore down into a spherical shape?
Geodes are naturally occurring crystal formations within certain types of rock (on earth). They're not alive, and never were, but their shape is often spherical.
28 posted on
02/07/2004 8:31:49 AM PST by
ZOOKER
To: Fitzcarraldo
Fossilized diatoms?
29 posted on
02/07/2004 8:33:27 AM PST by
blam
To: Fitzcarraldo
I wonder if they could some how scoop one of these spheres up with the arm, crack it open on top of a rock again using the arm and then do analysis and micro-imagery?
To: Fitzcarraldo
Is there a longer range shot of this thing?
Can someone adjust my ignorance here?
I'm not a geologist and am going into all kinds of brain pains over the two large thingies obviously being broken from one larger piece, having virtually identical patterns of cracks on their tops and, in my guesswork, not being able to get there by impact, erosion, or wind forces.
Wouldn't then need pressure and/or some sort of noteworthy ground movement to act that way?
46 posted on
02/07/2004 9:16:08 AM PST by
norton
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