Amanda Kooser is a New Mexico-based journalist who covers quirky and unusual science stories. She’s explored a mushroom growing on a frog, perfume for dogs and strange rocks on Mars. As a freelance writer, Kooser has delved into gadgets, geek culture, public schools, weird foods, transatlantic travel, broadband and Route 66.
When it comes to Mars , there’s room to appreciate both the science and beauty of the red planet. NASA ’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has been a star when it comes to helping researchers visualize and understand Mars . Sometimes it sends back images that veer into the poetic. That’s the case with a recentsnapped from orbit. “This terrain looks as if it was raked into furrows like a Japanese dry garden,” the MRO team wrote in an image-of-the-day feature for Oct. 7.
The fascinating landscape was spotted at an elevation of 17,900 feet. For comparison, that’s a little shy of Denali’s 20,310 feet in Alaska. The Tharsis region of Mars was once a hotspot for volcanic activity. Spacecraft have been studying the area for years. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft captured aAmanda Kooser
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