Re: Re - filaments on "bounce" rock.

From: Hud Nordin (hud_at_pobox.com)
Date: 07/07/04


Date: 6 Jul 2004 21:16:07 -0700

In article <ccft41$bor$1@panix3.panix.com>, Hud Nordin <hud@pobox.com> wrote:
>In article <832ea96d.0407061925.1a28f30e@posting.google.com>,
>Robert Clark <rgregoryclark@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>================================================================
>>From: Greg Ruo (la1234uk@yahoo.co.uk)
>>Subject: filaments on "bounce" rock
>>Newsgroups: sci.astro.research
>>Date: 2004-04-12 01:49:02 PST
>>
>>Dear All,
>>
>>Please have a look at this picture from the Rover Opportunity on Mars.
>>http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/069/1M134320496EFF08AYP2956M2M1.JPG
>
>Other images are at:
><http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_m069.html>.
>
>>Can you see filamentous structures running on the surface of the rock
>>? Located mainly on the center/lower right?
>>Well... that stuff on earth would look pretty biogenic to me.
>>
>>Somebody out there has a more "reasonable" explanation for those...?
>>
>>Greg Ruo
>>================================================================
>
>I'd be cautious about getting excited about fibers on Bounce rock --
>not that I really see what others must.

That'll teach me to read all the way to the end. Yes, you mentioned the
airbag fibers. Sorry.

-- 
Hud Nordin <hud@pobox.com> Silicon Valley


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