NASA captures image of ‘crawling spiders’ on Mars

In one of the recent findings on Mars, NASA has shared a picture of the planet showing ‘crawling spiders’.

NASA posted a landscape view of the Red Planet captured at its South Pole by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image, though in reality is not of a living creature, but looks very similar to silhouettes of crawling spiders emerging from the Martian surface when seen in the first glance.

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The image, as described by Tech Times, shows a carbon ice cap that surrounded the region during the winter as the sun returns in the spring. These ‘spiders’ are actually known as ‘araneiform terrain’ and are formed when carbon dioxide ice beneath the surface heats up and is released, a process that does not occur on Earth.

“There are radially organized channels on Mars that look spider-like, but we don’t want to confuse anyone by talking about ‘spiders’ when we really mean ‘channels’, not 'bugs’,” said NASA.