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Posted on 06/29/2025 5:09:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even while the image was being taken.
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That photo is bizarre.
Anybody ever watch the movie ‘Robinson Crusoe on Mars’?
Decades ago it used to be on Saturday Morning TV frequently.
Way cool!
Giant sand fleas.
Yep. A pretty good flick that one.
Even the Martian believed in God, Kahichopek IIRC
Saw it at the theater, iirc.
It almost looks otherworldly.
I didn’t see Robinson Crusoe but I saw John Carter of Mars.
That’s a good way of describing it.
https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/movies/67c8bf8a75fa845700721237?utm_medium=textsearch&utm_source=google
Martians are known for their dry sense of humor.
Looks like a colage of Jabba the Hutt to me.
John Carter based on Edgar Rice Burroughs novel(ettes). Made in 2012 cost $250,000,000 and raked in a paltry 30 mil the first week of showing. It eventually made their money back but was considered a flop financially.
That’s just pun-derful. I’d like to go to Mars, not for the people but just for the atmosphere.
I can see Jabba in there, I can also see what looks to be several very distorted faces of women in heavy makeup. Kid of like looking at clouds, or some kind of Martian Rorschach test.
Nobody goes there since it lost its atmosphere.
My father told me that he read all of the John Carter books when he was a kid back in the dark ages.
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