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NASA spacecraft take a picture of an ice stream on Mars

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The researchers noticed that when the ice melts or evaporates, entrained rock flows that freeze in place.

NASA spacecraft captured the movement of ice flows on Mars. Mashable reports.

According to scientists, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, equipped with the HiRISE camera, is orbiting the Red Planet, and with its help, planetary scientists received a new image taken from a height of about 300 km above the surface of Mars. The picture shows a stream of slow moving ice.

It was mentioned that frozen ice on Mars is found not only in the polar regions, this planet is relief, and its relief resembles glaciers. Slow ice flows are also found in more temperate regions of the planet.

For example, a new image of the Martian surface shows such a stream, located at the 37th parallel. According to scientists, this stream moves very slowly and forms in the rocky faults in the middle of the valleys and in the craters.

The ice, flowing down the slopes, tears the rocks and local lands of the landscape, moving them with the movement of the ice flow, and they fall into it. This process is gradual and may take more than a thousand years, but it clearly creates the history of ice movement.

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It was previously reported that the Euclid space telescope sent the first image of the “dark universe” to Earth.

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