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Mars: another place you probably don’t want to go skiing

OK, this is just cool. The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter, almost completely by chance, has captured some amazing images of Martian avalanches.

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To put the landslides in perspective, that’s a whole lot of rock and and ice rocketing down a 700m slope. In geological terms, that’s a spicy meatball. Click through for more pictures.

March 4th, 2008 by graeme |

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