Baby 'Spiders' on Mars Expand Across Sand Dunes (Photos)

Thursday, December 22, 2016 - 08:01 in Astronomy & Space

New images captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show small, erosion-carved cracks in Red Planet sand dunes. The features may be infant versions of similar-looking but larger Martian channel-networks that have been dubbed spiders.

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