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To: FireTrack
By identical, I take it that you also mean in size also?

It's hard to get a read on the size of the spheres in the Mars image but I'm guessing they're something on the order of virtually microscopic up to around a half-inch in diameter. That would fit with what I've observed. Some outcrops seem to consist only of "tinies." But I've also seen "thunderegg" formations larger than full-sized automobiles. It just depends on the conditions of formation. There's another factor I've been wondering about: the effect of Mars' 38% of Earth gravity on geological formations like this.

90 posted on 02/07/2004 11:57:14 AM PST by Bernard Marx (In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice there is.)
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To: Bernard Marx
How fragile are the formations that you have observed? Do they break easily? Do they break into halves or do they shatter?
99 posted on 02/07/2004 12:12:49 PM PST by FireTrack
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