Planet Four Talk

Large blotches

  • jlee916 by jlee916

    what are the areas that look like veins outside of the clustered area

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  • p.titchin by p.titchin in response to jlee916's comment.

    These are channels carved out by decades of subliming CO2 gas, and the dusty deposts arrising on them show the weak points where pressure releases, and a fountain of gas and dust is fired out.. We have nicknamed them 'spiders'.If there is no wind you get a 'blotch, if wind, ypu get a fan. We are supposed to mark these tp give data on sublimation and wind changes. Plenty more info on the P4 blogs. Great fun. Welcome to P4 ~Pete 😃

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