Re: A Few Additional pcs of Interest

From: wbarwell (wbarwell_at_munnnged.mylinuxisp.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:11:37 -0400

Denis Loubet wrote:

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> "Jonathan" <jon@home.com> wrote in message news:4175bc87$1_3@127.0.0.1...
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>> Do any of these pics look 'ancient' and uncovered from millions of
>> years of erosion? Or does it look like the water flowed
>> years/centuries ago?
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> I have no idea. I have no idea what martian soil, under martian
> conditions, after a supposed flood hundreds of years ago SHOULD look like.
> Do you?
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Looks typically windblown to me.
You see this in desert regions where loose
soil is typical. Pebbles and small rocks
at the surface. The phenomenon is the same
as a can of peanuts with a few brazil nuts.
Shake it enough and the brazil nuts work
their way to the surface.

It can take years, even centuries.
The famous Atacoma desert with its
Nazca lines is similar.
To make the lines, the creators of these
lines simply removed the rocks.

Centuries later, the lines are still visible.

Cheerful Charlie

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http://mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/mer/opportunity/081/tn/1P135374655EFF10CIP2421L5M1_L2L5L5L7L7.jpg.html
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http://mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/mer/opportunity/101/tn/1P137154109EFF2019P2570L5M1_L2L5L5L6L6.jpg.html
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http://mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/mer/opportunity/081/tn/1P135369919EFF10CGP2417L5M1_L2L5L5L7L7.jpg.html
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http://mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/mer/opportunity/081/tn/1P135369807EFF10CGP2417L5M1_L2L5L5L7L7.jpg.html
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http://mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/mer/opportunity/122/tn/1P139014002EFF2809P2265L5M1_L2L5L5L6L6.jpg.html
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>> Here, the odd mineral deposits that are 'standing up' might have formed
>> if the crater was covered by a thin *** of ice. You can even see how
>> the spheres were splashed onto the bank of the little stream!
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http://mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/mer/opportunity/162/tn/1P142569752EFF3221P2387L5M1_L2L5L5L7L7.jpg.html
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> Or pushed by wind.
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>> And just as an experiment, try this. Just click into these two links
> below, look
>> at just the thumbs for five seconds only,
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> "the thumbs"? WTF?
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>> a quick glance, then close your eyes
>> while asking yourself 'is that geology or biology'?
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> Geology.
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>> We should trust our own eyes, we should know what life looks like.
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> Do you trust that you know what drops of lava cooled in freefall look
> like?
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>> http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_m182.html
>> http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_m014.html
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