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A bigger picture

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00164/mcam/0164ML0883000000E1_DXXX-br.jpg
(from sol 164 raw images; linked to the full-rez original)

Could I make a request? It took me a while to track down the image, before I could then go looking for context in other images. It sure would be nice if people would identify the images they post and provide links back to the source.

Kvetching out of the way, I found it interesting that I couldn't find other examples of this kind of "damage" in other images in the sequence. And the larger view confirms that debris spread to the lower left. The image I can't get out of my head, due to the lack of any other signs and portents on the ground, is of a golfer taking a swing and making a divot. Silly image, I know, but it's harder to fit the scene into a scenario of, say, a piece of ejecta skimming low over the ground. Only one chunk? And it appears "fresh". Is there a nearby fresh crater?

That image inspires lots of questions. Excellent find, Rob.

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