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PostPosted: June 5, 2008 12:18 PM 

This is an additional subject, here an enlarged section of Horton's RA scoop image in color, at 300% size of his original, cropped to show just the dirt 'clump' as it sits in the scoop.
Does this make a patterned object, inherent to itself, and is this a section of the dirt which was dug as it is organized/
This very much resembles the surface rocks embedded in the soil in the RAC photos of the scoop, in that the 'clump' has a series of very well ordered small spheroids' appearing along the bottom, and they may be inverted from proper orientation in the scooping process. The pattern is a little more orderly than the pitted upper side vesicles of some of the rocks, and might indicate a near surface volatilizing of liquids or gases as a thin flow were to be exposed to the low pressure atmosphere, or some under-ice confined glacial layered depth at a prior time, possibly.
Does that seem reasonable to others? Can the formation of 'berries' be seen here in a partial formation, or a surface volatile expression which is cast with late stage fill, perhaps?
Perhaps I just missed the boat on a secret about the small piece of material. Is anyone aware of a story attached to this item of mystery?
I looked at the scoop front end, and see no teeth of round impression producing shapes anywhere.
Would this be a very 'watery' type of flow? That has been suggested many times in prior years research, before the current mission landings, and prior to the discovery of the 'berries'.

Are these northern berry(spheroid) equivalents?
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Is this sedimentary, or a volcanic, even a 'mud volcano' type expression?

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