Looks almost like lichen growth. Bacteria/fungus slowly breaking down rock?
This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3178 (2021-07-15 10:56:04 UTC).
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
https://www.britannica.com/science/rock-tripe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-oxidizing_bacteria
-most likely airborne moisture causing rock/crystal growth over millions of years
https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso1438/
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2014/12/aa24631-14/aa24631-14.html
This artist's impression shows schematically the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures that they inhabit that observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed. These alignments are over billions of light-years and are the largest known in the Universe.
The large-scale structure is shown in blue and quasars are marked in white with the rotation axes of their black holes indicated with a line.
This picture is for illustration only and does not depict the real distribution of galaxies and quasars.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1438a/
Credit:
ESO/M. Kornmesser
I like to imagine a massive data transport system that would be much faster than light by using the existing photonic system of pulsars and quasars as markers or lighthouses connecting black and white holes in 2D space
edit 2021-9-22 new links: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576512002780
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-gravitational-lenses-galaxy-wide-internet.html
A very redundant mesh network system shaped like a dodecahedral honeycomb, similar to the shape of the universe:
images from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-4_dodecahedral_honeycomb
CLUES - Constrained Local Universe Evolution Simulation
SCIENCE ADVISORS Dr. Joel Primack - University of California Santa Cruz Dr. Anatoly Klypin - New Mexico State University Dr. Stefan Gottlöber - Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
CLUES - VISUALIZATION Chris Henze - Advanced Supercomputing Division - NASA Ames Research Center Nina McCurdy - Outreach Coordinator - University of California Santa Cruz Dr. Mark SubbaRao - Adler Planetarium Patrick McPike - Adler Planetarium
CLUES - ADLER SHOW INTEGRATION Dr. Doug Roberts - Adler Planetarium
Mark Paternostro - Adler Planetarium
Really interesting landscape on Mars where Curiosity rover is located currently. Panorama I made using Microsoft ICE. Right-click and open image in new tab to see larger version
Mastcam onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3173
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager, located at the top of the rover's mast.
This image was acquired on Jul. 10, 2021 (Sol 138)
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP
Panorama made with Microsoft ICE
