Hi MannINteresting images. Also hope ...

Hi Mann

INteresting images. Also hope you will let me know how you think the phoenix images compare with the rovers' in terms of reproducibility. i.e one could always expect certain colours in a rover image with standard processing but with the phoenix ones, even with proper registration, the colours are not ever similar and, with the same processing, give rise to washed out greyish green images, dark brown ones and everything else in between.

Tell me if you get the same results as no one else (besides Hort) commented when I asked earlier.

Below are two images which I thought of making a new topic. But I'll just leave them here.

On sol 19, in the snow white trench (I think) the scoop uncovered a weird looking "thingie" in the shadows which I show below. The thingie was presumably broken up by later thinking and disappeared. The disappearance was attributed to sublimation and the thingie was identified as a piece of water ice.

On sol 48 while digging a new trench near to the spot where it took the TECP measurements the scoop removed another "thingie" that greatly resembles the first one and dumped it on the surface at the side of the pile of soil that was excavated.

Below is the sol 48 thingie in a x1.5 anaglyph. NOte that it fairly closely resembles the sol 19 one.

I've never been totally confident that the sol 19 thingie was purely ice. The shape and conformation suggested that even if it was predominantly ice, it might be a bit more than that.

It would be interesting if they do not cover this new thingie and observe it over the next few days to see what happens with it. Will it sublime, leaving nothingness again?

Winston