Mars, punctured.

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Photo from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter / NASA JPL.

Apologies if you already read Astronomy Picture of the Day (apod) or have seen this somewhere else, but I thought it was sufficiently wild to pass on. The image is from a high resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The black spot is a spot where it sees nothing! The speculation (from the Planetary Society) is that they they are very deep holes, maybe underground caves! The interpretation I am going for is: home of the space-worm!

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Re: crazy!

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Or maybe it really is Nothing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverending_Story).