maybe quartz? I’m not a geologist though so that’s just a guess
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They’re cracks in the stone that once opened up filled with another mineral. The cracks probably had to have been filled when Mars still had running water
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Those are mineral veins. It’s when a hot fluid rich in minerals (on earth, usually calcite and/or quartz) flow in cracks.
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Is that grey thing a rock casting a shadow hundreds of miles long
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It’s a graphical bug that happens when the polygons overlap.
Jokes aside, I imagine it’s something similar to the quartz veins on earth. It’s most likely a calcium deposit
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Set builder spilled the paint carrying it back to the truck. JK probably a mineral vein.
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maybe quartz? I’m not a geologist though so that’s just a guess
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They’re cracks in the stone that once opened up filled with another mineral. The cracks probably had to have been filled when Mars still had running water
Those are mineral veins. It’s when a hot fluid rich in minerals (on earth, usually calcite and/or quartz) flow in cracks.
Is that grey thing a rock casting a shadow hundreds of miles long
It’s a graphical bug that happens when the polygons overlap.
Jokes aside, I imagine it’s something similar to the quartz veins on earth. It’s most likely a calcium deposit
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Set builder spilled the paint carrying it back to the truck. JK probably a mineral vein.
It could be Migmatite ? I’m not a Mars expert tho
Calcium sulfate minerals (gypsum, generally).
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013JE004588
*Calcium sulfate veins characterized by ChemCam/Curiosity at Gale crater, Mars* https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JE004588
– Calcium sulfate is detected by ChemCam in veins crossing fine-grained sediments
– Veins cross various sediments as a result of postdepositional diagenesis
– Calcium sulfate veins formed through prolonged subsurface fluid circulation
Martians drew lines on the ground, daring the rover to cross.
Bobby from Mars City at it again with that white spray paint huh.