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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2012 18:30:06 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Sept 16, 2012 19:29:46 GMT -6
The first image is of some weird rock "fins" that are protruding from the ground. The protrusions are about a foot high and stick up out of the otherwise flat ground. The second photo is of some weird little round bumps on the surface of a rock formation (different from the other photo I just posted). I'm not really sure what those are. They appear to be small hollow half domes of some sort, with a hard outer shell and a softer, more erosion prone inside. Looking at a close up of some of the ones that have broken open it looks as if there is a hard protuberance at the center of them, kind of like if they had a hard core of some sort. That's odd. The so-called Martian "blueberries" that were discovered several years ago looked similar, as the article Jo posted pointed out but there were not nearly as many of them as there are in this photo. The blueberries were claimed to be iron secretions (which I don't necessarily agree with). I suppose these could be something similar to that.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 16, 2012 19:39:32 GMT -6
It is also possible that it might be some type of a fossil, like a coral reef for instance. I have seen fossils that looked kind of similar to that one but not exactly. All of the coral reefs that we have here on Earth though are made of limestone. I can't see the original color of the rock they are photographing with the bumps on it but I would assume it is a reddish color like the rest of the rocks on Mars which means it is probably saturated with iron. Limestone is generally more of a whitish color. Here are a couple of coral reef fossils that I pulled off of the net. You can see that they are similar to but not exactly like what the Mars photo looks like. It just dawned on me that NASA probably does not have any paleontologists there on their staff since they normally don't have any need for them. Probably lots of geologists but not people who are really familiar with fossils. Perhaps they should go out and get some since they are supposedly looking for life forms now. That's not something they would have even considered doing 20 years ago when scientists still believed that the Earth was the only planet capable of sustaining complex life forms. Since the discovery of all of the nearby Earth-like planets a lot of people have had to change their thinking.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2012 21:05:26 GMT -6
I was thinking that it looked a lot like some beach 'rock' that we have around here that are some type of ocean fossil..old crustacean fossils I think..and a little like lava that cooled very fast and bubbled.. It's just kind of a cool formation.
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