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Opportunity Lives High Off The Hog

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Opportunity continued its exploration of "Endurance Crater" the past five sols, and is now roughly 11 meters (about 36 feet) into the crater.

Spirit Investigates Wooly Patch

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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is a view across the outcrop informally named "Wooly Patch." It features an up-close look at the outcrop and highlights Spirit's location on sol 193 (July 19, 2004) higher up on the west side of the "Columbia Hills." Seen in the distance is the south rim of Gusev Crater, and, from the right, the "sea of basalt" is visible lapping onto the Columbia Hills.
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What is that? Looks rather odd, and due to the strange angle of the photo my brain is having a hard time parsing what I am looking at.

Are the smooth areas volcanic rock?
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What is that? Looks rather odd, and due to the strange angle of the photo my brain is having a hard time parsing what I am looking at.
It is this.

But, I don't know what the rock is made of.

Since then, Spirit RAT'd it, showing its bizarre glow-in-the-dark properties. Just kidding. It's left filter 7, ultraviolet, and it just means the interior is brighter in ultraviolet than the exterior, dust, and soil surface.

Up close it looks like this. As I recall reading, the rock was quite soft. It made some really fine-grained RAT dust, as evidenced by the clear impression of the Phillips-head screw heads in the RAT base.
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Maybe some sort of siltstone?

guess we have to wait and see.
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