This Halloween even , look upon in horror at the bell ringer of a strange and fearful beast that vagabond the plain stitch of the red planet . What horrible monster could leave such an eerie step ? Also , it ’s over six miles long .
Of course , this is n’t so much a gigantic step in reality as it is a geological organization , albeit a fairly strange one . This image , which was taken by the Mars Odyssey probe , was in the beginning think to depict an ancient , dried up lake bed , but the truth is a little more mundane : volcanic ash .
A NASA uranologist explicate :
analyse the accurate colour of the formation show the possible volcanic origin . The light material seem to have eroded away from ring area , argue a very humbled - density substance . The stark direct contrast between the rocks and the surrounding sand is compounded by the strange darkness of the gumption . The above picture was strike with the Thermal Emission Imaging System on the Mars Odyssey space vehicle presently orbiting Mars . The ikon cross about 10 kilometer inside a big crater .
Whatever this really is – which , again , is probably volcanic ash tree – it ’s still a desirable complement to other great minute in Martian pareidolia such as the legendary Face of Mars … which , for the record , in reality lookslike this .
ViaNASA .
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