'Space potato' 'Purple rain', more: 4 discoveries on Mars by NASA that will amuse you
The dry, rock, and bitter cold surface of Mars shelters mysterious information gradually being discovered by the US space agency NASA.
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From "purple rain" to the incoming "space potato", here are 5 amusing discoveries on Mars by NASA that will stun you.
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"Purple rain"
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NASA shared a video of purple-coloured auroras across Mars' nightside as detected by the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter.
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"Space potato"
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NASA shared this image of Phobos, the Martian moon. According to NASA, Phobos, which looks like a "space potato", is on a collision course with Mars at a rate of six ft every 100 years. Therefore, it is likely to crash into Mars in 50 million years or break into a ring.
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Book-like rock on Mars
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this close-up image of the rock nicknamed "Terra Firme" which looks like an open book. Rocks like this are formed by water seeping through cracks in a rock in the ancient past.
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"A bear lookalike on Mars"
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This interesting image was captured by HiRISE aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shows a V-collapsed structure, two craters, and a circular crack around it, forming a pattern of a bear's face.