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Posted by Paul Whitrow, 27th October, 2009 | Permalink | 5 Comments

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What is this?

Look at the picture and tell me what you think it is?

I first thought it was a tattoo, then maybe a close up of certain lady bits (ahem!), then finally maybe a weird science experiment gone awry.

But all these guesses where wrong. It is in fact a picture taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of Martian Dust Devils!

According to NASA themselves:

This portion of a recent high-resolution picture from the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows twisting dark trails criss-crossing light colored terrain on the martian surface. Newly formed trails like these had presented researchers with a tantalizing martian mystery but are now known to be the work of miniature wind vortices known to occur on the red planet - martian dust devils. Such spinning columns of rising air heated by the warm surface are also common in dry and desert areas on planet Earth.

The original image is much bigger, allowing you to see greater detail.

Such a cool picture, and definitely a candidate for a future desktop wallpaper.

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