Photo from open sources
Multifunctional interplanetary station “Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter “, owned by the American Space Agency, captures amazing structures in the North Pole area Red planet.
This photograph was recently published on the official website. departments in the section “Astronomical image of the day” and with at lightning speed scattered across the World Wide Web.
Many of us will probably find that this is the most Martian trees, however, according to scientists, we are talking about another optical illusion that a distant planet is so rich in. Astrophysicists are convinced that the veins are dark brown, really similar to the branches and trunks of a certain alien vegetation formed on the Red Planet as a result of melting ice, located on the tops of the dunes. In this case, ice is believed consisted not of water, but of carbon dioxide, that is, ordinary carbon dioxide. Melted, he exposed the brown sand that crawled to base and left bizarre traces on the dunes.
Experts claim that to recognize the optical illusion is extremely simply – the so-called “trees” do not cast shadows at all. By however, this does not mean that this phenomenon does not represent for world science is of no importance. Currently employees NASA is engaged in a thorough study of images of the North Pole Mars, and to the place where they were made by the interplanetary station, soon the famous rover “Curiosity” will head. Space agency in in particular, plans in the near future to find out how the wind and dunes behave at low gravity.
The texture of the Martian dunes is very unusual. Inflicted by the winds the sand hills of the red planet are much different from the earthly large wave sizes, and NASA cannot yet explain why so happens.
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