Watching from the side-lines, here, as the item...

Watching from the side-lines, here, as the items are processed by all. Quite a nice collection of details in the composite OM image from sol 110, cell 39. The original entry of #294-295, and the many subsequent seem to have mentioned most of the details that are suggestive, and I was thinking 'this just HAS to be nucleated lumpy crystalline growths, which can be at times very wide ranging and curious in variations in some mineral combinations. Then again, I can't know what these are, without detailed oven results, or other instrument testing.
I have stolen a crop of Horton's composite, reduced the garish contrast some, and reversed to a negative to see the 'other reality' we miss often. It seems as suggestive, and more so in negative. The radially aligned rounded lumps, the radial rods from limpet-like sheathing conical structures, and the many barely viewable rods or wiry nearly straight growths which have some curvature could be any number of objects. In the negative, the coloration of the rounded linear array seemed too cute to not post here. My apologies to Horton for the incursion on his work.
I believe this was 2x of his original size, from the focused area at the center.
I particularly like the upper right corner sheath with the collar extension, mirroring the shaded recess matching shape just to the left of the dark blue collar linear pattern. Too much here for any action seen to be accident, or incidental chance patterning.
Could this all be a series of mineral assemblies without the fabled 'missing liquid water' to boost the process?
Can the ices on Mars serve as a substitute for liquids in crystalline assemblies, setting aside the constraints presumed against both inorganic and organic crystallinity?

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