Researchers from NASA have released a bewildering series of images of themselves, of a bizarrely wrinkled-looking landmass captured by the Landsat 8 satellite over the North Pole.
The land is full of strange “patterns” like pictures around the Markha River area in Siberia – (Photo: NASA).
In a series of photos posted on the website of NASA’s Earth Observation Agency, a world that looks like… Mars or another alien planet appears in all four seasons and is especially evident in winter. The soil looked as if it had once melted and then suddenly solidified again, forming strange undulating patterns.
According to NASA, a study they once published in the journal Science suggested that strange shapes can be created when lands are repeatedly frozen, thawed and re-frozen , such as landscapes. in the Svalbard region, Norway. But what is observed in Siberia is quite complex and of a colossal scale than in Norway.
Science Alert says geologist Thomas Crafford of the US Geological Survey has come up with another theory that erosion has created a strange pattern in sedimentary rocks, called “layer cake geology.” , which occurs when snow melts or rain drips down rocky slopes, breaking and piling up sedimentary rocks.
However, all explanations are hypothetical, and only quite reasonable, not completely convincing. NASA says it will need more research to come to a final conclusion.