trainrewreck: Strange Mars Photo Includes Tantalizing ‘Tree’ IllusionCredit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.This new image of Mars taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010. trainrewreck: Strange Mars Photo Includes Tantalizing ‘Tree’ IllusionCredit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.This new image of Mars taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010.

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Strange Mars Photo Includes Tantalizing ‘Tree’ IllusionCredit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.This new image of Mars taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010.

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