Hmmm....where's the spiral? Got to thinking about it, and couldn't think of a non-biological process that would produce a spiral. So the discovery of a spiral form might be pretty significant (if I'm not all wet about the connection between spirals and biology).

I find myself playing the game of trying to figure out what the scientists are studying through divining where their attention is focused, but it can drive me crazy. You can do it with rover images, you can do it with orbital images. I study the orbital coverage maps and go to where the image-dots are clustered to look over the shoulder of the scientists.

The microscopic imager is a fixed-focus camera, so they usually take a series of images at different distances as the arm is moved in or out. I've never seen an entire sequence munged like the second half, though. Frustrating, isn't it?