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Space/Science » in reply to re: what if Spirit had landed in the nearby crater?

Interesting textures?

I don't think that's rock Tom. Look at how the stones and pebbles get pushed down into the regolith ("soil"). If there were a sheet of bare rock just underground, you couldn't do that.

I think it's just a real neat imprint of the airbag folds, with a couple of real pebbles to give it a "plum pudding" texture.

I bet if you got real good images you'de see the weave of the airbag fabric!

Nonetheless, it tells us interesting stuff about the physical nature of the soil, as I discuss in my other reply in this thread.

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