Mars, punctured.

[nibot]

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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[gstef.livejournal.com]

malfunction of the instrument, a dust particle, a body that absorbs all of the EM freq range used, bugs bunny's summer residence in mars