From orbit, some landscapes of Mars resemble a rough animal hide. Explore this image from the HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and you can find just about every type of sand dune known to exist. What shapes and stories can your imagination dream up from this image? Share a note below.
Martian spiders scurry around the surface in this image from NASA’s HiRISE camera.
These hills of Mars resemble sea fans from Earth’s oceans.
Anyone who has spent time at a swimming pool has seen something like this image. It looks like shadows on the bottom of a pool from ripples on the surface. But wind, instead of water, is involved in making this dizzying pattern of dunes on Mars.
Vine-like patterns swirl through the landscape of the Russell Crater dune field on Mars.
By The Riviera Times
By CritterKeeper
By Sarah Q. Brett