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Black Spidery thingies on Mars

 
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Black Spidery thingies on Mars
You are 200 miles directly above the Martian surface — looking down. This image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Jan. 27, 2010. (The color was added later.) What do we see? Well, sand, mostly. As you scroll down, there's a ridge crossing through the image, then a plain, then dunes, but keep looking. You will notice, when you get to the dunes, there are little black flecks dotting the ridges, mostly on the sunny side, like sunbathing spiders sitting in rows. Can you see them?

What are those things? They were first seen in 1998; they don't look like anything we have here on Earth. To this day, no one is sure what they are, but we now know this: They come, then they go. Every Martian spring, they appear out of nowhere, showing up — 70 percent of the time — where they were the year before. They pop up suddenly, sometimes overnight. When winter comes, they vanish.

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10/04/2012 05:25 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
weird. Dont think these are geysirs.
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10/04/2012 06:02 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
They're a species of plants, of course.
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10/04/2012 06:08 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
They're a species of plants, of course.
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I gotta smoke me some of that.

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10/04/2012 06:30 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
david bowie knew everything
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10/04/2012 06:38 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
Lithops. (Livng Stones)
When there is enough moisture they expand an appear.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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10/04/2012 06:40 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
Yep, would agree that it's some type of bush or tree..


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10/04/2012 06:41 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
Lithops. (Livng Stones)
When there is enough moisture they expand an appear.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
 Quoting: cdwarior 1564478


Doesn't look much like the things in the article. The ones on Mars seem to have tentacles!
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Lithops. (Livng Stones)
When there is enough moisture they expand an appear.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
 Quoting: cdwarior 1564478


Doesn't look much like the things in the article. The ones on Mars seem to have tentacles!
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10/04/2012 06:47 AM
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Re: Black Spidery thingies on Mars
These are fungus growing on Mars, obviously, and the fungus is fruiting making a fairy ring:

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