In remote regions of the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Australian outback, an explorer can trek across bleak, uninhabited landscapes only to suddenly stumble upon ground decorated with weird patterns.
Images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, now orbiting the Red Planet, suggest that most areas with geological features known as patterned ground appear at high latitudes, the same regions where large ...
Perfect circles of stones cover the ground in parts of Alaska and the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen. Elsewhere in the far north, stones form other striking patterns on the ground: polygons, stripes ...
Daniel Mann, a researcher at UAF's Institute of Arctic Biology, was invited by the journal "Science" to comment on recent advances in the study of patterned ground, which includes geomorphic features ...
[Above] Mars: Summertime view of polygons, highlighted by dark, windblown sand, on the floor of a crater at 71.2°S, 282.6°W. [Above] Earth: Polygonal cracking can be seen on the floor of Alatna Valley ...
during southern summer near 80.7°S, 70.4°W. This picture, M11-01795, was taken by MOC on 13 January 2000.
SANTA CRUZ, CA--Perfect circles of stones cover the ground in parts of Alaska and the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen. Elsewhere in the far north, stones form other striking patterns on the ground: ...
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