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Opportunity Discovers Little Martian Spheres That Don't Taste Like 'Blueberries'
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Opportunity Discovers Little Martian Spheres That Don't Taste Like 'Blueberries'
- Ainz -
9/15/2012 4:11:01 PM
First guess: "oolites"
- podrock -
9/16/2012 3:15:37 PM
Sort of like a pearl, but without the oyster?
- Ainz -
9/17/2012 8:10:14 PM
I will swear I've seen similar objects.
- bowser -
9/15/2012 10:02:21 PM
Interesting.
- RobVG -
9/15/2012 11:21:35 PM
On Earth, such spheres are normally formed by accretion in some kind of liquid environment.
- TB -
9/16/2012 12:46:36 AM
I'd like to hear Pod's take on this too...
- Ainz -
9/16/2012 12:13:29 PM
I'll have to get back to y'all soon...
- podrock -
9/16/2012 3:13:21 PM
I've found that ethyl alcohol has an interesting effect on those processes.
- alcaray -
9/16/2012 7:15:35 PM
It was just a wag but...
- RobVG -
9/16/2012 2:24:45 AM
No shootdown-here.
- ER -
9/15/2012 11:56:55 PM
Hailstones
- RobVG -
9/15/2012 11:46:19 PM
Thanks Ainz
- RobVG -
9/15/2012 5:18:52 PM
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