Microscopic images of the outcrop are in...

dtb — 2/8/2004 6:00:41 PM (archived)

Wow, looks as if the stronger layers are composed of those little round blebs, cemeted together; the more easy eroded layers mostly just the fine-grained material by itself. With larger pebbles of the stuff in the matrix.

Informed opinion and interesting speculation welcomed!

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/015/1M129515786EFF0312P2933M2M1.JPG

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/015/1M129516156EFF0312P2933M2M1.JPG

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Microscopic images of the outcrop are in... - dtb - 2/8/2004 6:00:41 PM
- The embedded spheres seem to be a different color and texture than the outcrop rock material - Buck Galaxy - 2/9/2004 6:43:30 AM
- Could some percolating agent have eroded the channels/passages in the rock? - ebnelson - 2/8/2004 8:53:29 PM
  - Windblown sand and dust can do a lot of amazing things to a rock - Tom Brosz - 2/9/2004 1:06:22 AM
- Sure looks like those "pellets" are imbedded in that rock - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 7:16:51 PM
- First raw closeups of Spirits "ground out" area of Adirondack also in. - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 7:07:32 PM

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