Comments on: Paperwork on Mars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/paperwork-on-mars/ Wed, 10 May 2023 17:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Andrew R https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/paperwork-on-mars/#comment-1412043 Wed, 10 May 2023 17:24:15 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=94887#comment-1412043 It’s only going to get weirder. Especially when geologists set foot on Mars. Since it has one-third the gravity, an incredibly thin atmosphere (mostly CO2) erosion these days is by wind, and freezing and subsequent sublimation of CO2. Throw in the light gravity and you don’t know what kinds of forms of rock you’re going to see.

When Mars was wet I wonder if its gravity led to different minerals, or different forms of minerals than are found on Earth. Have any geologists speculated on what they might find on Mars?

And if they find microfossils, well, watch invertebrate paleontologists go nuts.

]]> By: Andrew M Winter https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/paperwork-on-mars/#comment-1412039 Wed, 10 May 2023 16:58:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=94887#comment-1412039 OH CRAP!

That looks just like an eroded Cinder Block!

LOL

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/paperwork-on-mars/#comment-1412012 Wed, 10 May 2023 06:26:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=94887#comment-1412012 The Celaeno Fragments

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