Panorama of Mars
Image: NASA/JPL Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
Opportunity rover spent the Martian winter perched on the northern slope
of Greeley Haven on the Red Planet, and snapped hundreds of images that
NASA scientists stitched together to [...]
Martian Tendrils
Photo: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy blog explains that the weird looking tendrils on Mars, as shown above in a photo taken by HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, as:
In the Martian winter, carbon dioxide freezes out of the air (and you thought it was cold [...]
