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One more of those rocks that appear as if they fell from the sky and cracked while they were hot.

But that's nothing more than an impression. Science is more than impressions, takes its time to gather data and establish plausible theories and then prove or disprove them. Until then, imagination plays its game.

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1172, Sol: 614
LMST: 09:21:39
UTC: 2022-11-11T11:08:01
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Paul Hammond

@65dBnoise I like that boulder, that is a nice boulder 😀

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65dBnoise

If you look closely, many of those larger rocks appear to have cracked in a similar way:

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1172, Sol: 614
LMST: 09:21:02
UTC: 2022-11-11T11:07:23
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space #crackedRocks

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65dBnoise

I include the one I likened to a lava bomb here, to keep them all together: fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/10930

Cropped & white balanced MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1172, Sol: 610
LMST: 09:42:23
UTC: 2022-11-07T08:50:58
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space #crackedRocks

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65dBnoise

One more of those interesting cracked rocks, originally posted here: fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/10928

Processed MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1096, Sol: 606
LMST: 15:55:00
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space #crackedRocks

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65dBnoise

More of these interesting rocks, one from a recent image with pentagonal fragments, and another from an old image (Sol 388, when the rover was next to crater Port Angeles) with hexagonal fragments.

Cropped and processed:

MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1172, Sol: 610
LMST: 09:42:23
UTC: 2022-11-07T08:50:58

MCZ_RIGHT
RMC: 15.0000, Sol: 388
LMST: 08:12:30
UTC: 2022-03-24T04:50:13

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space #crackedRocks

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65dBnoise

Maybe this image offers some clues about where these rounded rocks came from before they ended up next to #Perseverance, to those who can interpret them (because IANAG™* 🥴 ):

(*) I Am Not A Geologist™

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1172, Sol: 610
LMST: 09:35:17
UTC: 2022-11-07T08:43:40
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Mars2020 #solarocks #Space

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65dBnoise

This rock too looks like its surface shrunk and cracked by fast cooling while its interior was still hot. Maybe by falling into the lake water?
Just a guess.

Processed MCZ_RIGHT
RMC: 30.2188, Sol: 629
LMST: 16:24:02
UTC: 2022-11-27T04:15:49
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space #crackedRocks

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65dBnoise

Just to keep them all in one place.

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RMC: 30.2188, Sol: 629
LMST: 16:26:48
UTC: 2022-11-27T04:18:40
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space #crackedRocks

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