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Jewels and gems on Mars…

Posted on October 13, 2008 by phoenixpics

Well, that’s what they look like! But of course, they’re not; what you can see there are teeny tiny grains of Mars dust, as seen by the Phoenix lander’s microscope on Sol (or day) 137 of the lander’s stay on the surface…
The colours are beautiful, aren’t they? Shame they’re not real! I tweaked [...]

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