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Originally posted by MysterX
When asked about this, NASA's official response was to claim that the much lower pixel array was used for Curiosity, 'Because the engineers working with the arrays, were familiar with them...'.
Originally posted by Arken
...And this mean that Curiosity CAN find FOSSILS on the bed of this ancient martian LAKE.
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
However, fossils are usually as hard as the surrounding rock matrix (considering the minerals in the surrounding rock is what petrified the fossil in the first place), and I don't know if a fossil would remain poking out of the rock like that, rather than being worn away in a similar fashion as the surrounding rock matrix.
Originally posted by wildespace
Here's the official release about this by JPL:
www.nasa.gov...
www.jpl.nasa.gov...
Basically, they say it's a hard and fine-grained rock that got exposed by wind erosion. Also note that only the top part of it is shiny, the lower part is similar to the base rock.edit on 12-2-2013 by wildespace because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Arken
And what make me sick is that 8/10 of the entire Curiosity images are OUT of FOCUS and the other part are with a very LOW resolution.
Originally posted by Arken
For sure, there are thousands of anomalies on mars that deserve a more deep analisys.
Originally posted by Arken
reply to post by ArMaP
ArMaP... ArMaP... ArMaP...
Sometime I wander if you are the same "Old" ArMaP, or if someone has stolen your accont....