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Martian Polar Horse
30 December 2009
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Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Flying across the ice fields of Mars, we find all sorts of strange and familiar shapes. I imagine this horse leaping in the thin ice layers in the southern polar region shown in this image from NASA’s HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Centipede of Mars
09 December 2009
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Credit: NASA, JPL, and University of Arizona
Martian winds whip around this rock causing leg-like patterns in the sand.
The Fish of Barsoom
02 December 2009
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Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
If you haven’t read the John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, you might not know that Barsoom is just another name for Mars. While there are no real fish on Mars (not enough liquid water or life found yet), these dunes sighted by NASA’s HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter look like an school of alien fish swimming across this Martian crater near the equator.
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