Huge Spirals Found on Mars

"Hundreds of large spirals have been discovered on Mars, and scientists think the coiled features are evidence of a type of lava flow never before seen on the red planet.

If so, the spirals would suggest that volcanoes—not ice floes, as other experts believe—shaped an unusual area near the red planet's equator.

Athabasca Valles is a region of flow channels and valleys covered with terrain plates, structures that show clear evidence of something fracturing and drifting across the planet's surface million years of years ago."

 

MRO Spots Martian Dunes in Motion

A rippled dune near Herschel crater undulates in the thin Martian wind.

 

The dark sand of this barchan dune changes position between June 15, 2008 and May 21, 2010.

 

"The benefit of long-term observations from orbit became evident today with the release of images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the subtly shifting motion of large sand dunes on the red planet, proving that the surface of Mars is much more dynamic than previously believed !"
via universetoday.com