Of this recent image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA sez:
Mars’ seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as it sublimates (goes directly from ice to vapor) every spring. In the region where the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image, we see troughs that form a starburst pattern. In other areas these radial troughs have been refered to as spiders, simply because of their shape. In this region the pattern looks more dendritic as channels branch out numerous times as they get further from the center.
The troughs are believed to be formed by gas flowing beneath the seasonal ice to openings where the gas escapes, carrying along dust from the surface below. The dust falls to the surface of the ice in fan-shaped deposits.
With such great telescopes, why can’t NASA take photos of the moon’s surface and show us all the objects left over from the moon landings?
This picture was taken by a satellite orbiting Mars. Here’s pictures of the lunar lander sites taken from a satellite orbiting the Moon:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html
Those lander ‘sites’ are not to scale.
Hi edalicious.
Have you got an impartial source that hasn’t a vested interest?
Tomas did specifically ask “why can’t NASA take photos…”.
True, lame joke, sorry.
5 Five FIVE! specious arguments:
http://ie.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-5-proofs-that-the-moon-landing-happened.html
trypophobia, shudder
Mars is eroding? Why aren’t the hippies saving Mars!?
Saw a woman hugging a tree in the park yesterday. First time I’d seen a tree hugger tree hugging. She seemed happy.