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Giant Spiders on Mars!
Friday, November 16, 2012 20:41
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Eek, spiders! All right, so it’s not actually little green arachnids we’re talking about here, but they are definitely spidery features. Called araneiform terrain, these clusters of radially-branching cracks in Mars’ south polar surface are the result of the progressing spring season, when warmer temperatures thaw subsurface CO2 ice.
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© Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 6 comments |
Post tags: araneiform, CO2, dry ice, HiRISE, Mars, MRO, seasonal processes, Spiders
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2012-11-16 20:23:04
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/98514/giant-spiders-on-mars/
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Is it that uninteresting you geologists have to blatantly mislead in a headline to get readers?? I;ve got spidery cracks on some of my outside walls, probably due to climbing Ivy… zzzz zzzzzz zzzzzz