Avalanches on Mars!

Holy cow, the Red planet can still find ways to be interesting so long as we keep our Martian satellite’s “eyes” on it.

March 3, 2008: A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet’s north pole.

“It really surprised me,” says planetary scientist Ingrid Daubar Spitale of the University of Arizona who first noticed the avalanches in photos taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Feb. 19th. “It’s great to see something so dynamic on Mars. A lot of what we see there hasn’t changed for millions of years.”