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To: Orion78
"Ditto, I can't wait until MER B Lands on the 24th. MER A will be well underway and there will be so many new pictures of Mars I will be like a kid in a candy shop."

Opportunity's site is a hematite formation supposedly so it will be interesting to see the rocks there. Hematite is considered a water process mineral formation. I can't wait to see what the rock closeups at this site will look like.

Remember the first color pancam image from jan 5? There is a neat rock you should look at in that image. I'll try cut it and to post it here in a little while but it looks like a it was cleaved into similar. I'm no geologist but I can only speculate that liquid water freezing could have split the rock like that. Of course it could also be an image anomoly where they pasted the pics together but I can't tell by looking at it.
52 posted on 01/08/2004 11:32:38 PM PST by AppauledAtAppeasementConservat (An educated fool, in the end, is still a fool.)
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To: AppauledAtAppeasementConservat
Yes, the Hematite. I am very excited about MER B and where it is going to land. I am trying to not get my hopes up too much though, it seems like every time I get excited about a Mars mission it crashes or they lose contact with it.

I do remember the first pancam image. I have it up on my screen but I can't really see anything that catches my eye at the moment. What area in the picture is it located?
61 posted on 01/08/2004 11:46:21 PM PST by Orion78 (Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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