Just a matter of time until they find spice as well..
Geoboffins spot hundreds of ghost dunes on Mars
Mars was once covered in hundreds of giant dunes as big as the US Capitol Building billions of years ago, according to new research. A pair of scientists from the University of Washington have discovered more than 300 crescent-shaped structures wedged into the eastern side of Hellas Planitia, an impact crater measuring over 2, …
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Thursday 12th July 2018 08:45 GMT Andy The Hat
Giant?
Compared to a lot on Earth they're certainly not 'giants' - the larger deserts of the world have dunes hundreds of meters high. Maybe these are giants on the Martian dune scale?
As it's a photograph, perhaps ninjaturtle is right - it was taken as the sandworms were breaking the surface and another shot is needed to confirm movement ...
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Thursday 12th July 2018 10:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
We found a rock!!!
I hate need for sponsored/hyped content and even here, research. "We found a rock" becomes, "we found a rock that may have rolled near the possibility of *life*, it may have possibly coughed near a *climate change*, and then quantum/cloud storage/bitconnect!!!!"
Ok, I exaggerate, and in no means suggest the data or research is suspect, but the write up (paper at times and media mostly) is as full of buzzwords and made meaningless by both social pressures and beancounters/marketing. :(
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