Peculiar 'cauliflower rocks' may hold clues to ancient Mars life - Phys.org
2016年2月9日 · They look like cauliflower or coral, but were these strange Martian rocks sculpted by microbes, wind or some other process? When analyzed by Spirit's mini-TES (Mini-Thermal Emission...
Mysterious Martian 'Cauliflower' May Be the Latest Hint of Alien …
2016年2月1日 · In 2008, scientists announced that NASA’s Spirit rover had discovered deposits of a mineral called opaline silica inside Mars's Gusev crater. That on its own is not as noteworthy as the silica’s...
Peculiar ‘Cauliflower Rocks’ May Hold Clues To Ancient Mars Life
2016年2月8日 · They look like cauliflower or coral, but were these strange Martian rocks sculpted by microbes, wind or some other process? Close-up of the lobed silica rocks on Mars photographed by the...
Curiosity Rover Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars That Looks Like a …
2022年2月27日 · Curiosity found another flower-like feature back in 2013, and the Spirit rover found similar-looking rocks that were nicknamed ‘cauliflower’ features because of their knobby protuberances. “Cauliflower” shaped silica-rich rocks photographed by the Spirit Rover near the Home Plate rock formation in Gusev Crater in 2008.
GMS - Geodes
Woodbury geodes are called cauliflower geodes owing to the appearance of being composed of roughish, interconnected spheroids. The degree of weathering gives distinctive outer appearances. Geodes newly "liberated" from the dolomite groundmass possess a rind of that gray-dark gray material (around top in Fig. 1.).
3 Ways to Identify an Unopened Geode - wikiHow
2024年8月30日 · Look for rocks that have a unique, bumpy texture on the exterior. Geodes are rarely perfectly smooth. The texture of a geode’s exterior may have a cauliflower-like appearance. Inspect the surface for any signs of minerals inside. Sometimes traces of the inside crystals are visible on the surface.
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Curiosity Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars that Looks Like a Flower
2022年2月26日 · Curiosity found another flower-like feature back in 2013, and the Spirit rover found similar-looking rocks that were nicknamed ‘cauliflower’ features because of their knobby protuberances....
They look like cauliflower or coral, but were these strange Martian rocks sculpted by microbes, wind or some other process? When analyzed by Spirit's mini-TES (Mini-Thermal Emission...
Bennu asteroid: Hummocky boulders with cauliflower-like texture …
2023年12月14日 · Over a month after NASA unveiled the sample collected from asteroid Bennu, scientists have finally been able to take a closer look at the rock from outer space and they are stumped. Earlier this week, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), researchers said that they have found that the sample contains a surprisingly rich array of ...
Cauliflower rock in Grampians | I walked 9km of Halls Gap to
2023年3月3日 · Walking on these rock you feel like walking on the dinosaur back. To me it resembles White Pocket in Arizona (I know it from many photos here in Flickr) - similar metamorphosed sandstone, what looks like giant cauliflower (aka brain). Grampians rocks are much darker though, while White Pocket is much younger (Jurassic).
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