Discovered a series of finger-shaped stones on the surface of Mars

The latest science news on ABC (Australia) reports that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered that the canyon has rocks like grayish green fingers on the surface of Mars.

The latest science news on ABC (Australia) reports that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered that the canyon has rocks like grayish green fingers on the surface of Mars.

Detecting strange stones on the surface of Mars

According to the latest scientific news on ABC (Australia), the Martian surface appears to be shaped like blue-colored fingers, called Yardang. The wind blew with dust and clung to the sharp rocks, rising up like thin, long fingers. They are in the Arsinoes Chaos desert area on Mars's surface with strong winds.

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Strange blue-finger stone sculptures on the surface of Mars

The 4,000-kilometer Arsinoes Chaos Desert, of which 7 km is a giant deep canyon system south of Mars's equator, is far east of Valles Marineris - a large, long canyon 1/4 a red planet ring.Valles Marineris is a large valley created by a tectonic crack in the Martian crust from billions of years ago.

Under the impact of water and wind, the rock mass was eroded, deep in the canyon area, eventually forming a mass of rocky mountains like grayish green fingers on the surface of Mars. Scientists believe that the messy terrain in the rock canyons of Arsinoes was created by a large stream of water flowing through the low plains north of Mars, which is called the ancient ocean floor.

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Mars MRO reconnaissance orbiter explores seasonal weather changes on the Martian surface

The greenish gray lines in the ventilated horizontal ridges are perpendicular between yardang canyons on Mars's surface. Images taken by HiRISE cameras on NASA orbit Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on January 4. The MRO explores around Mars in orbits extremely close, with a cycle of 12 times a day, at an altitude of about 300 km.

The MRO spacecraft began exploration around Mars since March 2006, until now the MRO is carrying out its fourth mission in the journey of exploring Mars. On February 7, the MRO completed its 40,000th round of fundraising around the red planet.

The MRO is finding a seasonal cycle of weather changes on the surface of Mars . According to information from NASA spacecraft, Mars is a world with much more dynamic and diverse geological activities than anyone ever thought.

Update 17 December 2018
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