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Subject: PICS:  Spock the difference: Nasa reveals dunes on the Martian
surface that look like Star Trek logo

Beam me up to MARS Scotty.  William Shatner is on Twitter about this
finding.


Spock the difference: NASA reveals dunes on the Martian
surface that look like Star Trek logo
Unusual dune field spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Contains dozens of 'wingtip dunes


FROM:  MO

It may at first seem a highly illogical picture - but fear not, you
can Klingon to the knowledge it really did come from the surface of
Mars.

NASA today revealed this amazing v-shaped dune field on Mars - which
looks uncannily like the Starfleet logo from the hit TV show Star
Trek.

It was spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This image was acquired by the HiRISE camera aboard the Orbiter on
Dec. 30, 2013.

'In this image of a dune field in a large crater near Mawrth Vallis,
some of the dunes appear to be in formation,' NASA said.

It likened the formation to flying birds.


'Migratory birds and military aircraftulike during World War IIuoften
fly in a V-shaped formation,' it said.

'The 'V' formation greatly boosts the efficiency and range of flying
birds, because all except the first fly in the upward motion of
air--called upwash--from the wingtip vortices of the bird ahead.

The odd shapes were formed by a combination of whether and terrain, it
said.


'For dune fields, the spacing of individual dunes is a function of
sand supply, wind speed, and topography.;

The find isn't Star Trek's first brush with the NASA's red planet
projects.

Earlier this year actor William Shatner joined growing calls for NASA
to investigate the bizarre 'jelly doughnut' shaped rock on the Martian
surface.

Shatner asked Nasa about the strange Mars rock found by Opportunity
via Twitter during a press conference on the Opportunity rovers latest
discoveries - asking mission controllers if they had ruled out
'Martian rock throwers'.

Mission controllers responding by saying Shatner's theory was
'unlikely'.
'We've got another question from Twitter, this one from William
Shatner,' NASA spokesman Guy Webster said, according to spacecom

'He'd like to know if you've ruled out the Martian rock throwers in
the case of the jelly doughnut.'

NASA later said it had solved the mystery of a 'jelly doughnut' rock
that appeared on the Martian surface - and says it was just a rolling
stone.

The white-rimmed, red-centered rock caused a stir last month when it
appeared in an image the rover took on January 8th.

More recent images show the original piece of rock struck by the
rover's wheel, slightly uphill from where Pinnacle Island, the name
NASA gave the rock, came to rest.

'Once we moved Opportunity a short distance, after inspecting Pinnacle
Island, we could see directly uphill an overturned rock that has the
same unusual appearance,' said Opportunity Deputy Principal
Investigator Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis. 

'We drove over it.  'We can see the track. 'That's where Pinnacle
Island came from.'
 
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