You'd love this one, then (you've most probably seen it already):
From:
[Looks to me not like a "coast", but rather the outcrop pattern of the "white unit" (Opportunity Formation). Since the unit is flat, it will create an outcrop pattern that mimics the contour lines.
I recall the comments from Nick's reporting and that of the guy I rode the ski lift with indicating that the white unit was "hundreds of meters thick" and could be seen "outcropping at the edges of the plain."]
Yes. You can barely see 'it' in this image as well:
From: Opportunity NavCam for Sol 57. Entire NavCam image batch for Sol 57 is here.
BTW, are the small crater features exposing the bedrock/white unit airbag imprints? You'll get the idea when you see the adjacent images to that one.
Enjoy!
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re: Nice picture Marcia, I'd love to see the stereo pair of this one!
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- NASA press conference title: "Opportunity Hits the Beach"
- Exactly how many tens of millions of years ago was all this supposed to have happened?
- Slides from the conference
- Another version of this news from MSNBC
- Alright you geologists out there.....
- re: Alright you geologists out there.....
- Geologists my eye. I want to see some fossil experts going over all these photos now, if they aren't already. (n/t)
- Climate
- It's all about the bedforms....
- re: I concur. I think some radiometric dating of the rocks & sediments is in order. (n/t)
- Sample return just became a lot more likely
- Some still images
- Squyres: "A habitable environment on Mars"
- Press release with photos
- Sedimentary rock! (n/t)
- Weiler: "Perhaps A Shallow, Salty Sea"
- You sure don't get beaches from water percolating up through the soil (n/t)
- re: NASA press conference title: "Opportunity Hits the Beach"
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