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@PaulHammond51
Would a day/night temperature difference of ~100° stress them thermally so much to make them crack? This one appears to me as if it was still hot, semi-melted, when it hit the ground, and also seems to show a direction.

I think a theory about these rocks should explain why there are so many here and not elsewhere around, how they got here apparently on top of the lower sedimentary layers, why they are mostly rounded, what they are made of, etc.

We're in for a fascinating story!

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Paul Hammond

@65dBnoise As you say lots of possibilities regarding these spit rocks. I look forward to the science papers that will follow. It'll be interesting to see which way the science team call it, or maybe it will be a 'Split Decision' ;)

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V Martín

@65dBnoise @PaulHammond51 "so many here and not elsewhere...", do you see some sort of non-random distribution, that's for sure gonna be the subject of some rock counting and plotting in the future. Maybe if you find a way to auto-plot them on your maps you save a poor undergrad a lot of work later on 🙃😉

Or the rover's "AI" can do that already...

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