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I just had a thought.. is it possible the chunks could have just been blown away by martian wind?

.. that sounded worse than I intended. :P

Or the salt was simply eaten by some martian animal - I can already imagine the disappointed faces of the NASA scientists when they find that out.

Blown out from the bottom of a trench? Without the trench getting filled in?

The KaBoom! Where's the Earth-shattering KaBoom!?

You laugh. Check out the mission patch for the mars rover mission:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nasa_mer_marvin.jpg

Yes, the device loosened up some dirt whereas all the other loose dirt in the area had already been blown away by wind. Makes sense to me.

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