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cool

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=D> That IS cool!

This has been a fantastic few months. New vistas of another planet every day. =D>

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Great stuff! The rocks are strewn in an interesting way here.

I also like the rock in the lower right in this image. It appears in other images too, as they pan across. If I were the one to name it, I'd call it the "Neanderthal Skull" - (though one "eye socket" shadow is higher than the other.) :-?

That is a wierd looking rock. I wish they would take a look at it, just out of couriousity. Perhaps NASA can implement a new program, since the primary mission is over. Woo Woo target of the week. And I nominate To Seek to be the first NASA director of the Office of Woo Woo Science :P

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You're being funny right? ToSeek seems pretty levelheaded to me. I imagine he'd be better as director of the Debunking Office. As for me, you'll notice I said "if I were the one to name it, I'd call it the Neanderthal Skull." Fanciful names for fun disqualifies me, as a real WooWoo would say that it was a skull.

I bet under different lighting conditions, at a different time of Martian day, the rock losses its fanciful resemblance. :wink:

That L7 image set combines into a beautiful pano of the hills. I slightly edited the pano, enhanced with a 1x1 blur and an unsharpen mask, so the brightness is no longer linear.

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/collect...itsol154L7.jpg

Presumably we're looking at the rising slope of the western spur, having lost sight of the hills behind it for the time being. It appears they're still heading straight for it ( http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/missi...ll.html#sol148 ) to a target called "Spur B". I wonder if some of the targets in the hills they are already resolving might change their gameplan (which was to skirt the spur to the south, and then continue west. ( http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...uth-A136R1.jpg )).

Though its still too soon to tell, some of the largest rocks up the slope of the western spur appear bedrock-like, though they could just be buried under sand. Either way, I can't wait for Spirit to start getting a bit of altitude and grabing a big pano of the surrounding landscape. I think these new vantage points will give some of the most beautiful landscapes we've ever seen of Mars.

Oh, fine. So now anyone with an antigravity device or a tinfoil hat who thinks NASA is beaming rays into his head will know to contact me. No, thank you!

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Are we there yet?

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Now that is breathtaking. Absolutely stunning. =D> =D> =D>

And that's just a navcam image. Wait till we get some panoramas....

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blueberries at Columbia Hills? :-?

look at the rock at center bottom of this latest image:

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spi...0P2373L7M1.JPG

Did they find out what those blueberries are?

Yes.

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Mars is not strange enough, let's reach the hills...


Is it strange enough, now?!?

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