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layers capping the tops of the hills in the distance.

I'll take a 'crack' at it. They're fossilized thermal spring 'blooms' percolating up from within an ice and nutrient bearing hill, when it gets warm enough to start to melt, perhaps from lava flows encoaching from the North. Or, maybe the whole plains as lava scenario isn't even correct, since they are examining so few rocks, it would be difficult to distinguish what is an erratic, and what is really native.

Remember, they came here fully expecting to find evidence of water. Something must be fundamentally wrong, some interpretation somewhere isn't right. Maybe Nick is right after all, rather than white mars, maybe it's all dehydroxylation.

I refuse to elimate any scenario without hard spectroscopic evidence, far more than what this rinky dink Mars mission has been supplying us with. Squyres is a total screw up. He got the rovers built and safely to the surface, but as a scientist, he is hopelessly biased on the one hand, and impossibly uncreative on the other.

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