Check it out:
Whatever they are, they move. Who knows?
metatron
Spiders On Mars?
by metatron 18 Replies latest jw friends
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Hortensia
I love science. I wonder what these will turn out to be?
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JimmyPage
We've known about this since the 70s:
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doofdaddy
Wasn't that a David Bowie album? (LOL)
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doofdaddy
Damn Jimmy beat me to it!
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tootired2care
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I'll bet it's the remains of one of those sandworms from the movie Dune...LOL.
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sizemik
Fascinating . . .
I found it difficult to marry the images with the close-up. Also science has only recently asked the question as to what life on other planets might actually look like . . . and thus how to recognise/define it. Complex molecules can have movement and other life-like behaviours.
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nancy drew
WOW David Bowie one of my favorites
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DarioKehl
I would love for this to be large colonies of photosynthetic microorganisms. These vanish in the martian winter and return in the martian summer! At the moment, most scientists hypothesize that they're CO2 geysers. I'm no geologist, but so far, I don't know of any geological events that positively correlate with seasonal change. Anything is possible, though! It could be a CO2 thaw, but I'm surprised the vapor isn't pure white. We've all seen dry ice, right? It's white and sublimes into a beautiful cloud-white vapor.
My only question on the geyser theory is this: Where are the shadows? If these are giant plumes, shadows would be visible emerging from their bases. Shadows are detectable on large natural and man-made objects from Google Earth, so where are the shadows here? (yeah, you can tell i'm really hoping it's microbial life, can't you?)
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