What I find most amusing is that only the dryes...

What I find most amusing is that only the dryest of the dry dust that blankets all of Mars may make it through the mesh -- and the "interesting stuff" is out in the cold.

I fear once again Big Science will conclude nothing interesting here folks, move along, move along.

I "see" all sorts of long range organization in the soil clots in the RAC images that will not pass through the mm sized screen.

( Why the %&$* wasn't an OM positioned on the arm! )

Why wasn't the "magic carpet" soil observation seen on the very first sol of Spirit taken into consideration for Phoenix?

If I remember correctly, the science speculation was that the effect was electrostatic or maybe mineralogical ( or maybe just "magic: ) -- but what was ever done to follow up on these speculations?

Where there science papers detailing experiments replicating the observation?

If the observed clotting effect was at both rover sites, then why wasn't it resonable to believe that soil would behave the same way at the Phoenix site?

Why was the soil "ground truth" observation discounted?

I went a'googling for a cartoon that expressed my sentiments on this issue:

A patient standing in front of a locked screen door, unable to enter a doctor's office labelled TEGA. ( There is another screened office next door labelled MECA )

( Ah well, I can see it in my mind.)

Where are the sol 9 raw OMs?