This looks more like a lush fabric carpet than the surface of a planet!
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2. This looks more like a lush fabric carpet than the surface of a planet!
The reason we've been able to get more pictures than usual from Mars is due to a direct connection with the orbiter. This one of the Gullies in Dunes, has been dubbed Kolhar and really blew us away. Photo credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona