Obvious Mars Mineral Fibers?

Wretch Fossil

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Sep 14, 2012, 7:52:35 AM9/14/12

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Or obvious fracture fills?
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393948&p=186

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393947&p=187
Source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/7983112366/in/photostream/

Read more at
http://wretchfossil.blogspot.tw/p/major-messages-from-wretch-fossil_15.html

Wretch Fossil

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Sep 16, 2012, 11:16:20 AM9/16/12

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New edition:
Lymph Vessel/Blood Vessel Remains Unlikely to be Fracture Fills or
Minerals

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393948&p=186

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393947&p=187
Source :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/7983112366/in/photostream/

Added on Sept. 16: Lymph Vessel and Blood Vessel Remains Unlikely to
Be Fracture Fills or Minerals

In addition to the above blood vessel remains, Mars Rover Opportunity
also imaged lymph vessel remains as shown in
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556402424&p=188

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556402423&p=189
Source of images: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/micro_imager/2012-09-15/1M400989710EFFBW00P2905M2M1.JPG

The substance is unlikely to be fracture fills or minerals, because
1. some of the substance rises from the ground;
2. most of the substance branches and curves;
3. all substance measures smaller than 500 microns across.

Wretch Fossil

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Sep 17, 2012, 9:17:10 AM9/17/12

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New edition:
Obvious Mars Minerals/fracture fills?

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393948&p=186

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393947&p=187
Source :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/7983112366/in/photostream/

Added on Sept. 16: Lymph Vessel and Blood Vessel Remains Unlikely to
Be Fracture Fills or Minerals

In addition to the above, Mars Rover Opportunity also imaged lymph

vessel remains as shown in
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556402424&p=188

http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556402423&p=189
Source of images: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/micro_imager/2012-09-15/1M400989710EFFBW00P2905M2M1.JPG

The marked substance is unlikely to be fracture fills or minerals,

because
1. some of the substance rises from the ground;
2. most of the substance branches and curves;

3. all substance measures smaller than 1,000 microns across, while
white asbestos are massive in habit.

Wretch Fossil

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Sep 20, 2012, 10:12:20 AM9/20/12

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On Sep 17, 9:17 pm, Wretch Fossil <wretchfos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> New edition:
> Obvious Mars Minerals/fracture fills?
>
> http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393948&p=186
>
> http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556393947&p=187
> Source :http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/7983112366/in/photostream/
>
> Added on Sept. 16: Lymph Vessel and Blood Vessel Remains Unlikely to
> Be Fracture Fills or Minerals
>
> In addition to the above, Mars Rover Opportunity also imaged lymph

> vessel remains as shown inhttp://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556402424&p=188
>
> http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556402423&p=189
> Source of images:http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/micro_imager/2012-09-15/...

>
> The marked substance is unlikely to be fracture fills or minerals,
> because
> 1. some of the substance rises from the ground;
> 2. most of the substance branches and curves;
> 3. all substance measures smaller than 1,000 microns across, while
> white asbestos are massive in habit.
>
> Read more athttp://wretchfossil.blogspot.tw/p/major-messages-from-wretch-

fossil_1...

Added on Sept. 20: No Fracture Fills Are Shaped Like Round Tubes.

Some rock guys say fracture fills or minerals can form these without
blood vessel remnants :
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556409455&p=190
Image sources:
http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/ (See post of Sept. 19, 2012)
http://roadtoendeavour.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/untitled-1cs2.jpg

That's Unlikely.

Wretch Fossil

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Sep 21, 2012, 10:06:17 AM9/21/12

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Added on Sept. 21: Blood Vessel Remains Are Rarely Found on Mars Soil
Surface

Some people say rock minerals or fracture fills can form these without

blood vessel remnants:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1556409455&p=190
Image sources:

http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/ ( post of Sept. 19, 2012)
http://roadtoendeavour.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/untitled-1cs2.jpg

Those are unlikely to be fracture fills, because similar morphology is
rarely found on the surface of Martian soils. They are not geologic
veins in origin, because no minerals form such morphology without
pseudomorphic replacement of curly blood vessel remains smaller than
500 micrometers across.

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