[meteorite-list] Re: Mars Rocks: The Look
From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:48:10 2004 Message-ID: <3BBEB83E.BF3CDCBE_at_kconline.com> Hello Sterling and all, Well said!! --AL "Sterling K. Webb" wrote: > Hi, All, > > Craig said, "Remember, actually we've never really SEEN a > Mars rock "in person", so we don't really know what they look > like." Well, OK, we didn't get to thump them with a rock hammer, > true, but what about MARS PATHFINDER? (Or Viking, for that > matter?) > > How soon they forget... Yogi, Ren & Stimpy, the Rock Garden, > The Mini-Matterhorn, Spock, Piglet, Barnacle Bill, the Couch? The > red is dust. The rocks are only red on the upwind side. Downwind, > they look like... rocks. Black mostly, basaltic, vesciular, > pretty much like lava anywhere. > > It pretty reasonable to assume that any impact that would > blast a rock right off its home planet would dust it off pretty > good, too. Hell of a way to houseclean. For polishing, the entry > through the Earth's atmosphere is sufficient. > > Seriously, though, we've only "seen" these few spots on a > planet with a LAND area roughly equal to Earth's. How much could > you say about Earth's geology if you'd only been allowed to look > closely at three backyards? > > Sterling K. Webb Received on Sat 06 Oct 2001 03:52:31 AM PDT |
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