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New satellite photos capture spider-like features sprouting up through cracks in the planet's thawing surface layers, as the spring sunlight warms layers of carbon dioxide deposited during winter.
A photo taken by the ESA's Mars Expresser orbiter apparently shows large clusters of black spiders crawling on the surface of the Red Planet.
New satellite images reveal spider-like formations on the dusty soil of Mars. What are these? New photographs captured by an orbiting satellite reveal an abundance of spiders on the dusty soil of Mars.
Martian Creepy Crawlers The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted mysterious "spiders" roaming the Red Planet's southern polar region. But they're not the arachnids we've come to fear back on Earth — they're the result of a complex geological process that causes carbon dioxide to sublimate, bringing darker material from below the surface […]
Scientists still don't quite understand what natural phenomenon caused this grid-like pattern to form at Mars' south pole.