Mars continues to fascinate us every day. Now, the high-resolution Imagine Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which previously revealed to us that the red planet “loves” everything geek (impossible to forget the appearance of the logo of Star Trek at the bottom of a giant crater), we can now observe a "dragon" that is hidden in part of the system of the great canyon of Mars, Valles Marineris , which extends along the equator of the planet.
HiRISE is an incredibly powerful camera. It has a resolution of up to 30 centimeters per pixel and has already covered more than 2.4 percent of the Martian surface. In this image, a portion of the Martian rock wall and the canyon floor appear to have formed a "dragon."
As described by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "there is evidence of the action of water and wind as modes of formation for many of the interior deposits" at Melas Chasma. In fact, the ripples that you can see in the darker matrix surrounding the "dragon" are due to the wind.
What will MRO's next surprise be as it continues to orbit Mars?
