Images of Mars -- Part Three

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[thechemist]

Re: 2P187533090EL5M1<br /><br />This red rock is Comanche, according to the latest blog entry by S. Squyres, and it will be the next science stop.<br /><i><font color="yellow">On Mars, Spirit is well down off of Haskin Ridge and heading for Home Plate. On the way, we've stopped off at three big outcrops, named Larry's Bench, Seminole, and Algonquin. Algonquin is the one that we're parked at now. They're all similar to one another, and all dramatically different from anything we've seen anywhere else. The rocks have undergone very little alteration, and contain a lot of olivine... much more olivine than we've seen anywhere else.<br /><br />Next stop should be Comanche, a big and very red outcrop between us and Home Plate. It looks like Comanche may be different from Algonquin and the rest, based on Pancam and Mini-TES data... we'll see what we see when we get there.</font>/i><br /><br />As far as S and Fe isotopic abundance determination, this can't be done by the MERs, one would need a mass spectrometer. (we need mass on mars <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> )</i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>I feel better than James Brown.</em> </div>

 

[thechemist]

A view of Comanche from closer : L7 pancam images <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>I feel better than James Brown.</em> </div>

 

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[bonzelite]

nearly looks like a tidal pooling area. almost can see barnacles on the rocks. but is counter-intuitive all the same as mars is dead frozen.

 

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[bonzelite]

that is beautiful terrain. i cannot stop looking at it.

 

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[Swampcat]

Spirit Sol 699 (L4, L5 & L6 filters).<br /><br />Full size image<br />(1024x256, 43kb) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[bonzelite]

that's just stunning.

 

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[jatslo]

<font color="yellow">Microscopic imager sol 699 Spirit: 2M188422363EM2M1</font><--- The following is a chunk of termite mound that is similar to the picture that I am responding to, not that I am suggesting that the mound is a biological byproduct of Martians or anything of the sort.

 

[bonzelite]

yeah, when i looked at the extreme close up image of the rock, my first fantasy thought was biologic, even though it is not. but how was it's bubble-like or brocolli-like surface created? the morphology is very different.

 

[jatslo]

Maybe, if the hypothetical vent were submersed under a salty ocean, conditions would exist for shrimps, crabs, critters, and what not. I was also thinking hydrothermal mud geyser too, as the following depicts: