Gadgets Blog » Martian Skiers Cause Avalanches on Mars

OK, so I may have pushed it with the Martian bit, but there really was an avalanche on Mars. Four of them.

NASA has just recently released these photos of the avalanches on Mars that occurred last month and said they were caught by accident. While monitoring Mars’ north pole for climate changes in the carbon-dioxide covered cap, the satellite Mars Reconnaissaince Orbiter took these photos during it’s routine mission, which reached the planet in 2006.

They estimate that the avalanche broke apart a 2,300 foot-cliff that kicked up huge debris clouds that spanned as wide as 590 feet.

Source: CNN, NASA

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