NASA photos look more like modern art than Mars
| September 4, 2009 | 12:48 PM
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Seasonal Haloes and Fractal Patterns (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
NASA released new photos this week from the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter, and many the images seem more like modern art than space exploration, as CNET points out.
In fact, if these images were hanging in your living room, casual observers would never even know they were from the Red Planet. I found particularly striking the blue and orange swirls in one photo with the short-and-sweet caption “Seasonal Haloes and Fractal Patterns.”
Also interesting is “Translucent Ice,” which looks a little like one of those images that when you stare long enough at it, a 3-D image pops out.
Click here to see the gallery at CNET.
Click here to see all 1,512 images released this week from the HiRISE project.
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