I must confess Bill that at home I too have a painfully slow connection, but at work I have the fastest connection imagineable. It's frustrating going back and forth. I send myself email reminders to check back on some of the large file goodies that the folks here come up with.

My wife really needs to get a better paying job so I can afford an ISDN or something like that.

And for those who prefer, here are two x-eyed stereo pairs from Sol 651 (?), of that outcrop. Both from the same R-L Front Hazcam pair, the first is "full frame" and the second is cropped to the center. As Helvick and Myran have noted, very delicate.

They do look a bit strange, but this is an stereo image made from fish-eye wide angle lenses. A bit unconventional.

Although not an MI image, these stereo pairs will work as an index for the forthcoming MIs of this spot.

--Bill

thanks Bill - cross-eyed does it for me.

I just sat there staring into the outcrop for about ten minutes (my eyes now ache). A-mazing.

Hopefully the rockboring insect that lives underneath doesn't pop out and bite Oppy - wait - cancel that....

Heck, forget strange MI's, these are wonderful MI's!

First, the IDD taking a look at The Wonderful Outcrop.

Second, an MI of blueberries. I see one of the odd stemmed ones, and just to the left, a new type: a botryoidal blueberry.

How yummy!

--Bill

That chunk at the top looks like peanut brittle.

They actually have some strange attributes, but I'm happy to back in the main thread. Let's hope we stay here

Hehehe! Gosh darnit, Bill. I see you beat me to it, and you did it in the appropriate thread. I just posted a similar comment here.

I just read that thread and I'm glad that someone else noticed the same thing. Great minds, gutters and all...

My first inclination was to post in the "MI done broke" thread, but I remembered this earlier thread and decided to resurrect it.

This particular berry popped out at me; this is important. In acid mine drainage the presence of botryoidal and/or framboidal pyrite is significant in that it is super-reactive with O2 and water: the area-volume ratio is very high and the large surface area is reactive. I'm trying to remember the genesis of that form, I actually gave a talk on this 20+ years back, but I'll be darned if I can remember any details. "CRS" setting in...

But google "framboidal", you'll find it interesting. We'll discuss later once we get educated.

Elk Grove's "peanut brittle" is interesting, too. It is composed of angular particles in a matrix. We'll look more later...

Attached in an enlargement of the area that we're clucking over.

Off to Exploratorium to see what goodies await.

--Bill

More MI's at Exploratorium. Not spectacular, but they be beautiful!

Looks like they're working on a MI panorama/mosaic.

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...ger/2005-12-14/

--Bill

Here is where we are relative to where we were.

The MI image was inverted to match the orientation of the pancam image.

--Bill

Has anyone noticed The Writing On The Wall? It says "DT2" with an "M" above.
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...KCP2936M2M1.JPG
(bottom right of picture, just to the right of the vertical crack)

How in gods name did you notice that!? Took me some time to find it even though I new I should be looking for it. Me thinks your spending too much time looking at this stuff, time for 'MER imagery anonymous', for you.

It's is going to be a nightmare once the kooks get hold of this one!

I still cannot see it but I think that "DT2 with an M above" means E=mc2 in ancient Martian language... hmmmm....

Found it...

Will this be joining the ranks of the B found on a rock in Viking 1 lander images:

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-425/ch22.htm

Hmm... DT, M, B, it seems the martians don't use vowels much?

tty

They'd never do well on Countdown

Doug

Carl Sagan - who passed away nine years ago today - said the Viking 1 B stood for Barsoom.

http://www.erblist.com/

Maps of Barsoom:

http://www.geocities.com/area51/dreamworld...files/maps.html

the IO the beholder, im seeing clear as a bell, an "et2" (with "bonus junk" around it)
Click to view attachment
but it does looks like some sort of martian mathematical formulae, clues?

The 2 is the only character I can see clearly, but wait... isn't it cubed?

Why should the Martians write in English? My wife (who is Japanese) says this looks more like a "ni", for Nippon...

Haven't you ever watched Star Trek? Everyone in the galaxy writes and speaks in good American English.

Unless of course your wife just figured out what really happened to Nozomi....

Are you sure the writing isn't in Klingon?

You can always check with the Klingon Language Institute:

http://www.kli.org/

In Klingon it says "Interpret these characters as English".

Here is an Autostitched mosaic of the sol 684 brushed area. They did a pretty decent job of aligning the brush with the geometrically-challenged arm. The lower part of the image appears more altered/recrystallized than the upper. The bedding planes on the lower right seem to be extremely fine-grained.

And in the brushed area I spy dark areas which appear to be small blueberries, so this spot is consistent with what we first saw in Olympia several aeons ago...

--Bill