The mystery of Mars' spooky 'spiders' revealed after two decades, know what it is?
There are extremely scary and disgusting 'spiders' on Mars. They were discovered two decades ago, but what are they? The curtain has now risen from this mystery. Now it is true that a spider cannot survive on Mars. But similar figures are definitely made on the red planet. These are seen when you take pictures towards the South Pole of Mars.
If you look carefully at the shapes like spiders, then you will find that these are many branching figures. Scientists call them Araneiforms. Areniforms means spider like spider. Usually their center is dark colored. Black or brown. While the branches are light colored. However this is not always the case.
Motifs like spiders on Mars do not match an geographical features on Earth. Mars spiders can be up to 3300 feet or 1 kilometer long. On March 19, a report about it has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Scientists have been able to develop a spider shape of Mars in the laboratory. He took a carbon dioxide ice, ie a slab of dry ice. Made a machine that mimics the atmosphere of Mars. When cold ice collides with the warm soil of Mars, it rapidly starts to form gas from solid.
The cracks that form during the process of formation of gas from hard ice. Those that make up the bulge. It makes shapes like spiders. Because gas comes out from inside hard ice. This creates branches with shapes like spiders. Planetary scientist Lauren McCion of the Open University of England said that this is the first lab-built surface of the polar landscape of Mars. On which we have done this experiment.
Lauren explained that the pattern we saw in the laboratory was similar to the shapes of spiders seen on the surface of Mars. This tells that when the dry ice present there rapidly changes into gas, then these shapes start to form.
According to NASA, Mars has 95 percent carbon dioxide in its atmosphere. Therefore, during the winter season, when snow accumulates on the poles of the red planet, it is also made of carbon dioxide. According to a study done in the year 2003, the spiders of Mars appear in the spring. When ice is hot, it starts breaking. This leads to the formation of images like spiders.
Carbon dioxide is rapidly released from the spider-like branches. Because of which the place becomes darker. But the theory of 2003 was. Today, scientists cannot test it on earth. Hence, preparations were made to create the atmosphere and surface of Mars on Earth later. For this, a device was created called the Open University Mars Simulation Chamber.
Scientists kept different types of soil in the chamber. A slab of dry ice was placed on top of it. The atmosphere of the Chamber was tailored to Mars. As the temperature rose, carbon dioxide started coming out from inside the ice. This led to the formation of shapes like the legs of a spider.
If such experiments are done on a large scale, then better results can be revealed. But one thing is clear from the experiment in the lab at the moment that the mystery of the spiders of Mars has finally been revealed after two decades.
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