These Spiders from Mars are in Fine Araneiform - The Cosmic Companion March 24, 2021
The spiders from Mars - odd geological features seen at the south pole of the Red Planet, may have an explanation...
Explaining the Spiders from Mars — one of the strangest oddities of the Red Planet
Mars is a world alive with mysteries and questions. One of the oddest is the so-called spiders from Mars, one of the strangest features on the surface of this tawny world.
Known as araneiforms, these spiders from Mars are likely the result of dry ice — frozen carbon dioxide — sublimating (turning directly from solid to vapor) within the Martian crust, a new study out of Trinity College Dublin finds.
“This unique geomorphic mechanism is hypothesised to be the cause of the dendritic, branching, spider-like araneiform terrain and associated fans and spots — features which are native to Mars and have no Earth analogues,” researchers describe in an article published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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