Hi HortInteresting comments above abou...

Hi Hort

Interesting comments above about the microbuckets.

The article you referenced above however does imply that the buckets are filled and then the excess scraped off by the movement of the stage covering so perhaps there is a mechanism for the filling of the buckets as well as for imaging the very top layer of the soil captured in the bucket. What is true is that much of the material would be covered and therefore invisible to the OM and AFM.

Here's an image from sol 122 that has some quite interesting forms or agglomeration of particles to make up interesting structures. I don't think I have to point them out, they are so outstanding.

I wonder what are the minerals in them and what processes produce such structures.

Winston