Incredible new photo from Mars "Looks like trees."

[garybeck]

According to Candy Hansen, a member of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) team at the University of Arizona, this new image of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.

More:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars-tree-photo-illusion-100113.html

[Orrex]

1. "My God, it's full of trees."

[Xipe Totec]

3. LOL!

:lol:

[madinmaryland]

12. There are a brazilian trees there!!

Ummm. How many is that!

[darkstar]

26. Nice one!

:thumbsup:

[lunatica]

2. That's a photo of strawberry chocolate chip mint with vanilla stick shavings ice cream

And it's melting

[leveymg]

30. . . . with a bunch of false eyelashes whipped in. Yummy! Mars Sundae.

Ben & Jerry, are you looking for a new flavor? How about a double scoop with "Space Junk", whipped cream and nuts?

[Cleita]

4. Looks to me like clumps of hair on a big hairy monster. n/t

[BunkerHill24]

5. You could easily mistaken it with the Wahabi desert

That's amazing view. Thanks for sharing with us.

[Frank Booth]

6. I wonder if this is where the Mars Bigfoot dwells.

[Kokonoe]

7. Its oil.

:-)

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Maybe it's Maybelline

Looks like thick, lush eyelashes to me.

[undeterred]

9. Looks otherworldly.

[Posteritatis]

16. Imagine that! (nt)

[NoPasaran]

10. Wow!

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. WOW that's a keeper

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. No, those look like dunes.

[Gman]

14. Are the trees growing next to the canals?

[Digit]

15. Asparagus grows on Mars!

MMMmmmmm asparagus...

Where's the butter?

[Mendocino]

17. It's a closeup of

Rush Limbaugh's pimply ass.

[The Midway Rebel]

18. Shouldn't the last part of the last sentence read:

"due carbon dioxide frost SUBLIMATION", rather than evaporation? CO2 frost sublimates.


Awesome photos!

[Hugabear]

19. I suggest we send a spaceship to investigate

I can think of a few people who should be on that spaceship. }(

[bemildred]

20. The trees only grow at the base of the dunes where there is more water. nt

[rug]

21. Hell, I've got the same thing on my back.

[librechik]

22. collapsed material my ass--they cast shadows...

(donning skeptic and acid resistant raincoat)

Thar They Blow!

[Moochy]

23. zoom in

I think that the blur that looks like shadows is really just a band of reddish material.

[librechik]

24. you make great sense--normally I'd be relieved to have that as an explanation.

but I am already lost to rational appeals about Mars. I don't know what's up there
but I know it's not what we're being told.

This lunatic is worth a glance for the open-minded--he's spent the last ten years analyzing
extant NASA imagery:

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/

that link will dig me even deeper into the twilight, I'm sure...don't follow it if you are a rock-hard rationalist. It'll make you mad.

The current pic in the OP is outstanding.

[Moochy]

25. pictures of martian fossils :)

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_016022_1420

To claim any of this is biological seems really just conjecture.

I visited his site, some interesting images, but if he were serious his site's background would be white. :+

cheers!

[librechik]

29. oooh, I like that one

almost Christmas-y in a grandma-took-all-my-acid kind of way.



Thanks!

[alfredo]

27. Incredible image

[ElboRuum]

28. Looks like a micrograph of a weird skin condition.

Doesn't fucking look like trees.