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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on November 27, 2016, 01:00:41 PM

Title: mars rover pix to ponder
Post by: rcjordan on November 27, 2016, 01:00:41 PM
NASA file:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=1514MR0077060010204628E01_DXXX&s=1514

reddit pix with inset:
https://i.redditmedia.com/Hi-sy8cPF0aRytrdNVyfgFAPVYNHgGGocmAIxjRlA8Y.jpg?w=860&s=df427058f43560550998da5b3df6190e

May be a geological version of the infinite monkey theorem but, still, wtf?
Title: Re: mars rover pix to ponder
Post by: littleman on November 28, 2016, 06:35:35 PM
That's definitely an interesting formation.  It could be that magma behaves differently in lower gravity and it more likely to form into cubic pattens as it cools -- or there is something about the chemical composition on Mars that makes it more likely.