The picture was taken by a NASA vehicle called the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The vehicle was taking pictures featuring an uneven surface, which is filled with several basins that form a pattern like shards of light.
High-resolution camera called the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), which is attached to the Orbiter captured this image of a total distance of 1 kilometer.
"In an area where the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image, we see some of the troughs form a pattern of light fractions. In other areas, trenches are called spiders because of its shape," NASA said in a statement.
Figure trough 'spider' is captured at approximately 16:56 Mars time. The planet's surface gets a little bit of sunlight from the west at an angle of 78 degrees at the time, which means the position of the sun on the earth was in a position 12 degrees above the horizon.
NASA called troughs seen on the surface of Mars was formed as Mars enters the spring. Carbon dioxide ice that had covered the surface of Mars now eroded to show the beautiful surface of Mars.
"Trench-trough believed to be formed by gas flowing beneath the seasonal ice, to burrow into where the discharge of gas, carrying dust from the surface below," NASA said in a statement.
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