"jonathan" wrote in message
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A testable prediction if I'm correct.

As Opportunity travels away from the crater
the number of spheres will evenly dissipate. As their
distribution is from floating away from the
outcrop/reef.


We'll see........


Jonathan


ps...what will I win~

Win what? That the images look similar
to a reef structure?
You can't win. You're not the first.
The suggestion of the exposed outcrop being
a fossilized reef structure has been mentioned
in various newsgroups before you showed
up here. In a thread about the improbability of finding
fossils on Mars (or anywhere) by just landing in one
spot and looking around, I argued that if the landers
had landed in the Guadalupe range in northern Texas
(in which, Carlsbad caverns are located - as is El
Capitan, the namesake of rock currently being studied
in the Meridiani crater) they would have been able to
discern unquestionably that they had landed on a fossil
reef. The entire Guadalupe range is just the exposed part
of an enormous buried fossilized reef structure that is also
exposed in various other parts of Texas.

You are not the first to suggest similarities to possible
reef structures. However, no one else has discussed
it quite so superficially as you.