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ERRORIST

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From: OXFORD ALABAMA

Registered: 2004-01-28

Posts: 1,182

Re: Sphere triplets???

Are they cells dividing or bacteria reproducing ?[http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/046/1M132266947EFF05AMP2987M2M1.HTML]http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery....M1.HTML

chaosman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2004-02-22

Posts: 39

Re: Sphere triplets???

Reminds me of proliferating yeast. See the following site for visible example:

[http://www.ifr.bbsrc.ac.uk/ncyc/Default.html]http://www.ifr.bbsrc.ac.uk/ncyc/Default.html

Of course there is a big gap regarding dimensions (a yeast cell is only a few microns long).

And I would find it very unlikely if these marbles were single celled organisms.

I could rather imagine some kind of a higher developed spherical bacterial colony...or the fruit body of some kind of "mushroom" living inside rocks or inside soil..or...whatever...

Yang Liwei Rocket

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Registered: 2004-03-03

Posts: 993

Re: Sphere triplets???

I think its a little too early to start jumping up and down and shouting "Its Alive"

but these martian pictures are wondeful indeed and need further investigations

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