On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Terry Blanton wrote:
I thought it looked familiar and vaguely remembered your post.
Nothing like having someone else close to the project agree with you.
Terry
Yep. Here is some more history of possible interest:
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From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Grind spot changes
Date: February 27, 2004 9:06:32 AM AKST
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At 12:30 PM 2/27/4, Terry Blanton wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
Just doesn't look like rock to me.
No, it looks like brain tissue that is dehydrating.
My thoughts also! Just too timid to say so! 8^)
Some kinds of coral have that look as well. Perhaps lichen-like life
forms
can form large coral-like colonies, and the outcrop consists of such a
colony, or at least the remains of one.
Given that it is/was living material at one time it is, at current MArs
temperatures, likely frozen and I would expect it in the low
pressure Mars
atmosphere to sublimate rather than dehydrate in the ordinary sense of
melting and evaporation. Sublimation would likely only happen if the
outer
sheath that protects/protected the living organism from dehydration were
disrupted, thus it seems that death and decay would be a very very slow
process accelerated during brief warm periods of thawing. Such death
and
decay could possibly be preceeded by wind driven dust abrasion
wearing away
the protective outer sheath while the organism is frozen.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
