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[Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA]

1 posted on 04/22/2012 8:17:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2012/02/xlarge_72ee311b9bd1053adeaf23ae56c6bf4c.jpg

Martian `dust bunny.’


2 posted on 04/22/2012 8:33:15 PM PDT by tumblindice (Our new, happy lives.)
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To: SunkenCiv
For a place with less than 1% of the atmosphere of the earth, that planet sure does move the dirt and dust around.

You have to wonder about the electrostatic effects.

/johnny

3 posted on 04/22/2012 8:33:58 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SunkenCiv

Considering wind speeds on Mars can reach 400 mph for weeks at a time dunes would take on all kinds of shapes.


4 posted on 04/22/2012 8:34:46 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Freaky deaky.


6 posted on 04/22/2012 9:00:38 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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