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[quote="fl"]are the rectangular patterns in front center tire tracks or natural ?[/quote]
I think you are referring to the solar panels on Opportunity.

are the rectangular patterns in front center tire tracks or natural ?

I love these guys. Spirit is gone but Oppy trucks on...fingers crossed...what a stellar effort for all involved..particualrly the builders of these amazing machines....what we humans should be doing...not building/wasting time on weapons etc.

That was so beautifully written. I will re-read this APOD many times. :)

It almost looks like a circular rock structure just a few feet in front of the rover.

The rest of the rocks seem to follow the patterns of the wind but the structure in front there seems to be more circular than the others. Could that be a very small crater?? Maybe Opportunity could stop there, and dig down a little to see if there is anything of interest.

I love seeing these pictures!

This looks more like a series of beaches from an ocean or a lake that was higher at one time and subsided over many millenia. I've seen this sort of thing near Great Salt Lake in Utah and the pacific coast just north of Santa Cruz.

If I may be allowed - wow!!! and golly-gee-whiz!!!! What a scene spread out in front of the rover. Loved the write-up - human overlords, in deed!!!!

Maybe, just maybe, Spirit can be freed by those winter winds .....

I wish today's picture was in color. :)
[quote="owlice"]Ho-ho!! Someone had a good time writing today's APOD, and I had fun reading it! Except for the link about Spirit; poor Spirit, all cold and quiet and needing a warm blanket and some sunshine. :([/quote]
I was wishfully thinking that maybe a Martian winter wind could blow the loose sand that Spirit is stuck in away! :wink:

The planets reach their state with rocky cover. I think, in this case, we have to look at, cleaned of sediment, only some sand. The folds and sedimentary layers suscesivas not let us see on earth.

Ho-ho!! Someone had a good time writing today's APOD, and I had fun reading it! Except for the link about Spirit; poor Spirit, all cold and quiet and needing a warm blanket and some sunshine. :(

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