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A dark dune field in the Proctor crater on Mars.
Mars dunes
Damn that looks like histology! Looks like a macro of something, perhaps at 50 to 200 times magnification… but I couldn’t think of anything, however prepped, that looks like that (at least in a human, which is the only sort of histol I’ve done).
So… when the blurb on the photo source noticed how similar to a histol slide it might be… I wasn’t surprised.
My guess was an aerial photo of Lake Eyre. I was almost right, according to the URL.
I thought it may have been spores of some exotic fungus.
Heaps of other weird stuff on that website.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100815.html