2024-04-28 03:50:59
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft has captured new images of small, dark, spider-like shapes traveling through the region of Mars known as the ‘Inca City’, near the red planet’s south pole. .
According to the Space website, these shapes were observed by satellites emerging through cracks on the surface of Mars.
The European Space Agency said this phenomenon is linked to the spring sun warming layers of carbon dioxide deposited during the dark Martian winter.
In turn, the carbon dioxide ice in the lower layer turns into gas, which accumulates and eventually penetrates the overlying ice up to a meter thick.
The escaping gas carries dark dust from the ground upward, eventually forcing the dust out of the upper layers of ice like water from a geyser before settling on the surface.
This creates fractured spider formations 0.03 to 0.6 miles (45 meters to 1 kilometer) wide.
“We still do not know exactly how the Inca city formed,” ESA officials said in the statement.
According to Sky News, “It is possible that the sand dunes have turned to stone over time. Material such as magma or sand may have seeped through broken sheets of Martian rock, or the hills might be sinuous structures associated with glaciers.”
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