Nasa Photographs 'Trees' On Mars

Telegraph UK ^ | 13 Jan 2010 | Ben Leach

[edpc]

The images appear to show rows of dark "conifers" sprouting from dunes and hills on the planet surface. But the scene is actually an optical illusion.

The photographs actually show sand dunes coated with a thin layer of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, less than 240 miles from the planet's north pole.

The "trees" are really trails of debris caused by landslides as ice melts in Mars's spring. You can even see a cloud of dust, just to the left of centre of the picture, where an avalanche is caught happening.

[edpc]

The "trees" are really trails of debris caused by landslides as ice melts in Mars's spring Photo: NASA

Lies! All lies.....just like they cover up of the face on Mars. /s

[edpc]

cover = covered

[cripplecreek]

Cool pic.

[FatherofFive]

caused by landslides as ice melts

So we're causing global warming on Mars as well! Must be that SUV rover we sent.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That's what any back yard in the mid-west looks like in January, LOL! Conifers and snow! ;)

And don't forget the Man in the Moon conspiracy!

[OrioleFan]

Looks more like a close up of Nancy Pelosi’s chin.

[edcoil]

Let me know when they picture the dogs watering them...

[earlJam]

Ice is melting on Mars?

Is the Earth getting so hot we are now melting Mars?

[stormer]

Forget the trees...

[agere_contra]

Spooky, seeing such an alien landscape.

Nah, those are conifers. Also: look at the ski-marks right the way across the landscape! Finland! Mars is Finland!

[Sloth]

Larger: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2009/details/cut/PSP_007962_2635_cut.jpg

[Frantzie]

Budget time again so NASA comes up with a fantasy. The stupid NASA people voted for slap happy gap tooth liberal and pretend-hill billy Bill Nelson. Screw them.

NASA sucks anymore. Filled with ACORN employees. It was a good agency when the Germans ran it.

[agere_contra]

Thanks for the enlarged picture.

In closeup, it’s very obvious what those black things are.

Eyelashes.

Seriously, it’s uncanny how much the picture on your link resembles a huge Revlon commercial.

[Gondring]

[wendy1946]

You should take a look at the more recent and higher resolution images of that face megalith:

Ma Nature does not do straight lines or Bezier curves on a three-mile scale.

Aside from eye sockets, nostrils, lips, and a helmet or head dress of some sort involving smooth curves, we observe the following: Nobody would build such a thing with carved stones; what you would do is pile stones into the general shape you wanted and then pour some sort of a hard facing material like concrete over the stones. Assuming such a structure were many thousands of years old and given a planet on which sand and wind were in plentiful supply, you would expect to see that hard facing weathered away on the windward side and falling away in slabs on the leeward side. In the picture thus obviously, the wind and sand come from the lower left.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Martian trees are well documented in the Space Trilogy,
by CS Lewis...

[Verginius Rufus]

They must have been planted by the astronauts. Better ask Sheila Jackson Lee.

[JRios1968]

[Vermont Lt]

Big asparagus farms on Mars. Who has a lot of lemon butter?

[rawhide]

Amazing picture!