Martian landscape
2010-01-12 23:20:48.439511+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
![[Image of the Mars surface from NASA's HiRISE project]](/images/upld0000/img003663.jpg)
Some amazing images from the NASA HiRISE project of pink mountains and tendrils that look like trees in the Mars landscape. Note especially the detail picture of the avalanche in motion. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog titles this "another dose of Martian awesome".
I got this from JWZ's LJ, where spider88 observed:
Awesome that the planet of men is covered in vulvas.
To make sense of the picture, it's probably better understood if you flip it 180° and you can see that what looks like trees are actually the tendrils running down the sides of the dunes. But then it looks less like vulvas.
The MeFi thread linked to Mars:2020:Springtime, an amusing little animation of what it might be like to live on Mars.