Mystery Creepy Spiders on Mars, This Explanation Scientists

A portrait of Mars obtained by the Chinese mission. (CNSA)

Hitekno.com – Mystery creepy spider on Mars has long been a concern, after the astronomer find patterns on the red planet.

Astronomers see this strange pattern like a creepy spider. The discovery of this pattern has become a mystery after two decades have passed.

Finally, now the scientist could explain the mystery of the spider pattern that astonomists discovered on the planet Mars.

These patterns are visible in satellite images of Mars’ south pole.

The pattern is shaped like a black branch on the surface of the Red Planet and looks scary enough, that researchers dubbed it “araneiforms”, meaning “spider-like”.

Measuring up to 1 kilometer in size, the spider does not resemble anything on Earth.

However, in a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists managed to recreate a shrunken version of the spider in the laboratory.

Reporting from Space.com, Thursday (8/4/2021), the spider was created using a plate of carbon dioxide ice and a machine that simulates the atmosphere of Mars.

When the ice makes contact with a much warmer layer of Mars-like sediment, some of the ice immediately turns from solid to gas, forming spider-like cracks through which the exiting gas pushes through the ice.

“Experiments show directly that the spider pattern we observed on Mars from orbit can be engraved by the direct conversion of carbon dioxide ice from solid to gas,” said Lauren McKeown, a planetary scientist at Open University, UK.

According to NASA, the Martian atmosphere contains more than 95 percent carbon dioxide and much of the ice and frost formed around the planet’s poles in winter are also made of carbon dioxide.

In a 2003 study, researchers hypothesized that a spider pattern on Mars could form in the spring, when sunlight penetrates the carbon dioxide ice sheet and heats the soil beneath it.

The heating causes the ice to sublimate from its bottom, building up pressure under the ice until it finally cracks.

Until then, scientists had no way of testing the hypothesis on Earth.

However, in this new study, experts created a tiny surface of Mars in a laboratory using a device called the Open University Mars Simulation Chamber.

Experiments prove that the spider sublimation hypothesis is indeed valid.

According to the researchers, the pattern of more branched spider legs appeared when the use of sediment grains in the experiment was more refined.

This study provides the first physical evidence showing how a spider pattern on Mars might have formed.

That is the mystery creepy spiders on Mars which finally was able to explain by scientists why this strange pattern was formed. (Suara.com/ Lintang Siltya Utami).

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