Linking Young Minds Together

Feature What Do You See, Bright Eyes? AN unblinking eye stares from this crater image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.This is one of many Martian craters sitting in the northern lowlands area of Nilosyrtis, a region that marks the transition from the southern highlands on the Red Planet. Each crater center contains heavily eroded mounds of material that probably once buried craters in the region. Closer inspection reveals scattered rocks that may have accumulated from distant impacts on the planet's surface. This marks a passage of time suggesting that the mounds are ancient sediments, perhaps once deposited in a primordial sea when water ran on Mars. The radial filaments or "eyelashes" probably come from more recent deposits of dust and sand trapped between the older mounds and crater walls.

 

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