The weekly newsletter for Fed2 by ibgames

EARTHDATE: October 25, 2009

Official News page 12


PICTURE OF THE WEEK: MARTIAN DUST DEVILS

by Hazed

Take a look at this picture of the Martian surface. It shows dark trails that twist and twine across the terrain. They are caused by Martian dust devils - miniature wind vortices, spinning columns of rising air heated by the warm surface. They pick up loose dust which is red-colored and leave behind the darker, heavier sand, thus creating these strange patterns.

One more thing I am going to have to incorporate into the Fed2 planet maps!


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