What is this ?

[batavus]

Hello.<br />This is my first post.<br />What do you think about this little piece of .... <br />What is it?<br /><br />/Batavus

 

[odysseus145]

Looks like rock <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[mrmorris]

<br />It <b>might</b> be a Cartaelian Slime Beast.<br /><br />But failing that, I second the rock.

 

[rogers_buck]

That's amazing. A rock on mars with writing and an arrow on it. The first marioglyph! What a find! <br /><br />If only the part of the rock the arrow points to hadn't crumbled away... (-;

 

[Swampcat]

<font color="yellow">"The first marioglyph!"</font><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" />...<br /><br />But don't you mean "areoglyph." <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <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>

 

[thinice]

Now we have not only first specimen of martian writing, but also first public terminology debate, lol. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[mooware]

it's Jim Kirk's pocket phaser.

 

[claywoman]

okay....I'm not a geologist, nor a scientist, I'm a lowly Historian...but look at it closely...it doesn't look like a rock to me.<br /><br />What it does look like is dried mud with some sort of spatula handle sticking out? Well I may be wrong about the spatula handle but listen to why I surmise it isn't a rock.<br /><br />Okay look at the picture carefully. You can almost see (off to the right) tire ridges possibly caused by a dump truck or grater? and the pattern itself, it would be a really thin, thin rock and the way the breaks are suggest pressure from something really heavy pressed down on it. I've seen dried mud beds that look a lot like this...Or am I whistling out my ears here?

 

[bobvanx]

Claywoman,<br /><br />You've made an impressive number of posts in a short time. If you'd been around earlier, you'd have seen more of these images, so it's okay that you have ignorance about it. Just wanted to set that out there, so you can tell that I'm not trying to be an ass.<br /><br />This is a microscopic imager picture from one of the Mars Rovers. If it were earlier in the eventing, I could tell you which one. We're looking at a 1"x1" (approximately) view of its own track. As it drives around, lots of small rocks get churned up. We've seen examples in every image that the science team takes.<br /><br />So it's just a small, flat rock.<br /><br />The ridges are probably real, and probably do tell a geologist something about how this rock formed: as it grew, or as something built up layers, or as something slowly squished it before it got carried to this spot.

 

[claywoman]

Thank you Bob...Like I said, I'm science impaired except I did ace geology and Biology in college.<br /><br />It just so reminded me of flattened mud..so those were tire tracks I saw...God I'm proud of myself!!! Okay, in the upper part of the picture on the rock itself just above the long number, there is an almost perfect circle...any ideas?

 

[bobvanx]

Good noticing.<br /><br />Yes, that is a circular impression. It's been made by an instrument on the rover. I think it's called the APSX, and it measures the mineralogy of whatever they press it up against.

 

[claywoman]

Thank you so much!!! If I weren't math impaired, I'd take an astronomy class...this is so fascinating...You talked about how many posts I make, its because for me to understand something I need to know the why's and what's...I think that's why I enjoy history so much, because I can ask the why's and research the answers. With this though, I wouldn't know where to begin looking for the answers!!!

 

[bobvanx]

S_G, are you sure? The RAT has a pair of contact indicators. This impression is flat, wide and circular, so I think it's the ring around the APSX.

 

[bobvanx]

Yeh, hurry is bad. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />I jujst looked up the instruments, it's the mark left by the contact ring of the Mössbauer spectrometer.<br /><br />I also saw that they'll usually run the spectrometer first, then on the same patch they run the APSX, so they get the best data set they can.

 

[claerwen]

I'm no regular, but I don't think Batavus is coming back.

 

[claywoman]

He could be just watching this and learning...I'm a talker so I climbed rapidly in the 'ranks.' Some learn by sitting back and watching, I learn best when asking questions to find out the why's. So maybe he's here but just being quiet...

 

[batavus]

Hello again.<br />Right.<br />Here is the link to the picture:<br />http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20041129a.html<br />I am sorry for the delay.<br />Still learning <br />/Batavus

 

[mountainmama57]

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[a_lost_packet_]

<p><font size="1" color="#000080"><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I have a photo taken a few days before the last eclipse, something unusual appeared, just above the moon, but much larger! if anyone would like to see the photo I will share it with you. contact mountainmama57&nbsp; deermeadowslandl@msn.com <br /> Posted by mountainmama57</DIV></font></p><p>Upload it to imageshack or any of the other image hosting sites on the net and then come back and link it to us.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[bearack]

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[spectreusn]

<p>just upload the image dude</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>____________________________________________ </p><p><font color="#ff0000"> We Are The Bane Of Man, For Ever Enslaved.</font></p><p><font color="#0000ff">I will create in my own image<br />If God can then why can't I?<br />No thought of the consequences<br />I've got to know the meaning of life</font></p> </div>