On May 31, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Michel Jullian wrote:
Well spotted Horace, strange indeed, here is a blown up view of the object attached.Michel
Thanks for the blow up. It appears to show small pattern striations that look like cat paw prints. I don't know if those are artifacts of the photography, but they look similar to patterns that develop in frozen mud here in the arctic. They are the result of sublimation of ice from frozen soil originally having a high water content. The rocket blast may have expedited that kind of sublimation. The two small round white things to the lower right look like they might be "Martian blueberries", said by NASA to be hematite. All just speculation, but who could resist?
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Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
