NASA Captures Images Of Crawling 'Spiders' On Mars
13 July 2018, 10:46 pm EDT By Allan Adamson Tech Times
NASA's MRO spacecraft has captured a landscape on planet Mars that features what look like crawling
spiders. Scientists call this araneiform terrain. How does it form on the Red Planet?
( NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona )
NASA has shared a landscape view of a surface on Planet Mars that features what appears like crawling spiders.
The image, which the U.S space agency posted as part of its Image of the Day series on Friday, was taken at the South Pole of the Red Planet on May 13.
The image shows a carbon ice cap that enveloped the region during the winter as the sun returns in the spring. It shows what appears like silhouettes of spiders emerging from the Martian surface.
Araneiform Terrain
These arachnid-like features, however, are not actual spiders. These features are what scientists call "araneiform terrain." The mounds form when carbon dioxide ice beneath the surface heats up and is released.
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