The picture was taken in 2007, but an amazing find “saw” just now when I accidentally found the right angle pictures.
NASA employees published the Martian surface, which depicts the legendary Chinese dragon. This is actually the outline of the canyon Melas Chasma, which is considered the deepest point of the Valles Marineris is a giant canyon system spanning a quarter of the equator of the planet.
Billions of years ago this place, according to experts, there existed an ancient lake. After the death of the body of water, deposits on the surface of the canyon and the wind and volcanic ash and formed this pattern.
The picture was taken in 2007 with the help of the HiRISE camera, but to “see” the outlines of the dragon was only now that the researchers have chosen the desired angle of the photo.
This is not the first “strange” the surface of Mars. Earlier on the red planet was discovered the hole, which in the picture is reminiscent of pencil lead.
