Mineral formation | Mars Curiosity Sol 3396

3D Model

Great job with this in picking up the finer details.

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From a Geological/Paleo Biological stand point it looks very similar to a burrow cast. Seen in many different scales from worm burrow to rodent burrows that were filled by sediments.

This looks a lot like a cave formation called a Helictite. They grow in random branching directions.

@semeion Appreciate the feedback and you assembling this model. It's certainly an interesting ' mineral concretion' and surely get a lot of interest

@paulhammond5155 I mixed up the images during my scaling considerations which completely changes the picture. Its probably a lot closer to 4x5cm, but there are too many variables involved to say for sure at this point.

@paulhammond5155 Roughly 20x30cm according to my reconstructed camera positions and the focus step count from the metadata compared to this graph: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214...

Not very much to start with so take those estimates with a grain of salt. Might very well be off by a factor of two.

Have you estimated a scale yet?