7 mysterious images of Mars
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Photo: NASA/JPL/CalTech/University of Arizona
People on earth always talk about mars and try to search about the mysteriousness of mars !
Here are some images that where capture by space equipments !
1.The Red Planet
The fourth planet from the sun, Mars is one of our closest neighbors yet it remains a mystery. There is strong evidence that water once flowed on the planet, but what happened to make it disappear? Is there life there? So many questions, and our quest to learn more about the red planet is just beginning. As NASA's Mars rover continues to feed our curiousity about the red planet, we can admire it from afar.
2.Barsoom
Mars maintains a bright red-orange hue because of the rust-colored, iron-rich minerals in the soil. This landscape is named from the 1913 science-fiction classic, "The Gods of Mars." Barsoom was the local name for the red planet. This photo was taken by the Mars Rover Spirit as it wintered on a small hill known as Low Ridge.
3.Tattoo
This image was taken from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. These mystical trails are the work of surface dust devils that weave across the planet as they do on Earth. The dust devils whip up the red soil, leaving the darker sand visible underneath. These dust devils have been credited with cleaning the solar panels on the Mars rovers, according to NASA.
4.Sunset
The rover Spirit caught this sunset on May 19, 2005, on the 489th Martian day of the rover's journey. The photo captures the Gusev crater on Mars. The planet typically experiences a long twilight for up to two hours after sunset because of an abundance of dust scattered across the night sky that reflects sunlight.
5.Proctor Crater
This is another snapshot from the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Taken on Feb. 9, 2009, this image shows dunes and ripples in the sand. Experts speculate that the dunes are composed of basaltic sand, which comes from volcanic rock, thus making them darker than the surrounding sand ripples.
6.Cape Verde
This false-color photo was taken by the Mars rover Opportunity on Oct. 29, 2007. Cape Verde can be seen jutting from the Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum, a plain located two degrees south of Mars' equator. Cape Verde is named for the places Ferdinand Magellan visited in his voyage around the world in the 16th century on a ship named Victoria.
7.Morning Frost
This false-color photo was taken by the Mars Phoenix Lander on Aug. 14, 2008. Soon after the photo was taken, the frost disappeared from the heat of the rising sun. Mars has a gravitational pull that is about 38 percent that of Earth's, though Earth is about 10 times more massive than Mars. There is no evidence that the planet has magnetic poles now, but there are indications that they once existed. (And for more interesting comparisons,
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