Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Nasa Photographs 'Trees' On Mars

The "trees" are really trails of debris caused by landslides
as ice melts in Mars's spring Photo: NASA


From The Telegraph:

A Nasa probe has sent back photographs of what appears to be trees on the planet's surface.

The images appear to show rows of dark "conifers" sprouting from dunes and hills on the planet surface. But the scene is actually an optical illusion.

The photographs actually show sand dunes coated with a thin layer of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, less than 240 miles from the planet's north pole.

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