Friday, March 02, 2007

APOD3.8

These are white ridges of rock on Mars. The image is one of the highest resolution taken from orbit. The theory is that water flowed through cracks in the rocks, bleaching them, and winds blew the darker surface dust off them, exposing the white surfaces. The above image resolves surface features as small as one meter across in Candor Chasma region of huge Valles Marineris on Mars.

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