Black objects have been identified on Mars that look like spiders. NPR reported that the spidery objects were viewed from 200 miles above the surface of Mars.
The photos were taken by the Mars Reconnossance Orbiter in January 2010 and recently exemplified on NPR. The photos appear to have "little black flecks dotting the ridges, mostly on the sunny side, like sunbathing spiders sitting in rows," reported Yahoo News.
They were first identified in 1998 and are currently under specuation about what they could be. Yahoo News reported that the images have resurfaced in more detail because of a book by Michael Benson called "Planetfall: New Solar System Visions."
NPR reported, "They were first seen in 1998; they don't look like anything we have here on Earth. To this day, no one is sure what they are, but we now know this: They come, then they go. Every Martian spring, they appear out of nowhere, showing up - 70 percent of the time - where they were the year before. They pop up suddenly, sometimes overnight. When winter comes, they vanish."
Though it is not officially known what they are and scientists have their own theories about what they could be many believe them to be geysers formed from CO2 that occur when they explode from underneath Mars' surface.
Yahoo News outlined other thearies such as Hungarian scientists who think they could be colonies of "martian microorganisms" that come out when its warm.
Though there is much speculation by scientists, it is still not 100 percent known what the objects actually are.
See photos here.
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