Detailed View - MER-B Sol 014 Spherule
The original NASA/JPL image link is here
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Description: sea urchin Apparent size: 4 mm Common features: "hand" feature and circular "eye" feature, cleft, "spinal" knobby feature - at least four examples of this have organism been found. Note the pentagon with the short radial lines at the right limb of the urchin. Compare to this sea urchin fossil
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| Stacked frames: 2
Enhancement methods: bright/contrast difference anti-shadow
The lower image is a nearly flat stereo pair that greatly helps recognition of the pentagon and radial segments feature- cross your eyes at it and it will fuse, and you can see a central small rounded feature with a hole in it, and radial lines from each vertex and each face of the pentagon. |
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Summary description of image contents: urchin or urchin-like organism with large hand-like pattern based at bottom and extending upwards, and circular eye-shaped feature. The "eye" feature is surrounded with a perimeter of bumps of uniform size. It appears that a second hand pattern starts over right limb of creature and extends into the first one. Pronounced cleft at lower left, depression at lower right delineated by one finger of the hand. Note the pentagon with radial lines inside it at the right.
Stereo view: click here
Anaglyph view: click here