NASA is trying to shake loose Martian fossil bone tissue.

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Lin Liangtai - 07 Jul 2008 06:32 GMT

NASA is trying to shake loose Martian fossil bone tissue

Fig. 1 shows nine arrows pointing to vertical blood vessel remains in
nine fossil osteons ( bone tissue) in a trench named Snow White. NASA
says the white color area is where water ice is, although it is non-
continuous and very small in size. NASA plans to scoop up the water
ice there on July 8 to put it into an oven for testing. As the soil
(containing water ice) is unusually clumpy, NASA plans to shake the
soil until it passes the 1mm holes of a screen above the oven, just
as NASA did last time.
Such shaking could damage related instruments. Have you heard of
shaking loose bone tissues, fossilized or not? Couldn't NASA find
someone who knows about bone basics?
Fig. 1: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1555082227&p=0

Source of Fig. 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/2643489032/

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OsherD - 07 Jul 2008 06:55 GMT

> NASA is trying to shake loose Martian fossil bone tissue
> Such shaking could damage related instruments. Have you heard of
> shaking loose bone tissues, fossilized or not? Couldn't NASA find
> someone who knows about bone basics?
> Fig. 1:http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1555082227&p=0

From Osher Doctorow:

Lin Liangtai, I notice that you give .tw in your email address, so
you're apparently from Taiwan. NASA has done a lot of good things,
but there is a strong tendency especially among engineers to "do-it-
yourself" without consulting outsiders, or at most consulting internal
"insiders" belonging to whatever disciplines or fields have been hired
already.

I discussed that some years ago with my wife's uncle, who was a
retired manager from Hughes Aircraft, and I asked him whether
inventions and discoveries could not be accelerated very much if more
interdisciplinary people and "second opinions" even in the same
discipline were hired, especially with very different viewpoints, and
he answered rather indirectly, "No." He was an old man even then,
and now that I am 69 years old and realize how little Big Corporations
and Big Government in the USA care about interdisciplinary work and
highly divergent opinions, as well as ignoring a large number of
Seniors with accumulated Wisdom and Experience who have retired, I
think that he had just given up hope. He was a Monarchist who
believed in the Tsar of Russia, and from what I have seen from the
ineptitude of Civilian Democracy in Wartime in fighting Terrorism and
enemy propaganda, he was probably even right about Monarchy at least
in Wartime.

Osher Doctorow

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Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / July 2008

NASA is trying to shake loose Martian fossil bone tissue.