Wanted to drop this image from sol 9, from the SSI left side camera, as indication of some of the altered images I am going to be placing on a couple of my topics where I'll keep most of my enlarged or altered images for this mission.
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From the original # 295960579 , also listed as image # 2933, a 64kB original, at 1 to 1 size(same size), processed to show as much of the highlight area as possible, and with a 'solarized' equal upper tone line in black showing the surface texture in the 'blocked' bright highlight are not viewable, this is not a proper source original, and is altered somewhat. Unless the Phoenix team can provide better dynamic range control I'll be releasing images similar when bright ares are not detailed along through the mission.
Hopefully this will aid some of you trained in crystallography and mineralogy to get a better early grip on the minerals and chemistry in this material, as it may yet not even be water ice. Please offer suggestions on the estimated content if you dare, prior to the instrument tests being run. My 'Lander Mystery Items' and 'Arts and Crafts' topics will have additional similar images of smaller items like this one, and, the 'slab' layered bright material highlight textures from the ongoing 'sol' dates as they are presented. I'll be displaying both JPG's and PNG's. PNG below.
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Whereas some find altered images offensive, even when they are informative, I;ll leave most of them off these other topics which other contributors have started. Horton is not being referenced by the explanation, as he is gracious and a very good technician of the originals, but there seems to be some resistance by some others in tolerancing attempts to be informational. I too am finding the obvious 'wash' of 'neurons' and 'blood cells' to be a serious offense to proper science on this blog, and hope that my images do not offend similarly.
I find very little of this material is appearing to have sublimated, the layering is not entirely horizontal, the textures are patterned, and 'pebbled', and the surface exposure to daylight seems to not be eroding the surface preferentially as yet beyond the long term stability of the debris covered sections.
Will we get a dose of adjustment in the concept of rapid sublimating ices in the permafrost, tundra type landscape in the circumpolar north of Mars?
Has the lander leg droplet splatter collection been reduced over the weeks time?
I'll make future entries/pictures here short and readable.
