What is this?

• by samhodgson11

  I have no idea what this very peculiar and beautiful formation is. Anybody know?

  Posted January 10, 2013 6:59 PM

• by mschwamb scientist, translator

  Ah those are channels carved in the bedrock by flowing carbon dioxide gas trapped underneath an ice cap of carbon dioxide ice on the South Pole of Mars. Learn more here and here.
  Cheers,
  ~Meg

  Posted January 10, 2013 7:35 PM