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01-14-10, 08:05 AM
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The "trees" are really trails of debris caused by landslides as ice melts in Mars's spring Photo
The photograph was taken from orbit around Mars by HiRISE, the most powerful camera sent to another planet.
NASA's Candy Hansen told The Sun: "The streaks are sand, dislodged as ice evaporates, which slide down the dune. At this time of the Martian year the whole scene is covered by CO2 frost."
Last month Nasa announced a new telescope had detected five planets outside the solar system. The observatory, which was launched last year to find other Earths, made the discoveries in its first few weeks of science operations.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6979855/Nasa-photographs-trees-on-Mars.html
The "trees" are really trails of debris caused by landslides as ice melts in Mars's spring Photo
The photograph was taken from orbit around Mars by HiRISE, the most powerful camera sent to another planet.
NASA's Candy Hansen told The Sun: "The streaks are sand, dislodged as ice evaporates, which slide down the dune. At this time of the Martian year the whole scene is covered by CO2 frost."
Last month Nasa announced a new telescope had detected five planets outside the solar system. The observatory, which was launched last year to find other Earths, made the discoveries in its first few weeks of science operations.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6979855/Nasa-photographs-trees-on-Mars.html