Airbag imprints

Below are three large pannable stereo pairs of the imprints in the Martian soil left by Opportunity's airbags. You can really see the layer of granules, forming what Dr. Squyres called a carapace over the deeper dust. Did the granules in the imprint areas get pushed below the dust, or did they get crushed into dust themselves like loose lumps of powdered sugar?

Select the view from the thumbnails to the right. Use the controls beneath the frames to move the picture around. The leftmost two images are for cross-eyed viewing, and the rightmost two are for parallel-eyed viewing.

You can also view an anaglyph of one of the imprints by clicking on this anaglyphic thumbnail...

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