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Martians, Watch Out! Avalanche!
On Monday, NASA released the first-ever images of avalanches on Mars. An orbiting spacecraft snapped the photos of ice and dust cascading downward in blurs of brown and white. The sudden landslides whipped up "massive debris clouds," some of which reached nearly 600 feet across.
The pictures kicked up their own rush in Buzz. Demand for "mars avalanche" roared upwards, smashing in to our top hourly movers. Related queries for "new mars images," "nasa new mars images," and "new mars images nasa" surged.
Photos of the Red Planet consistently attract lookups. Searches for "mars images" draw hundreds of thousands of hits each day, registering as our most consistently popular query for the fourth planet from the Sun. The second most popular Martian lookup over the past several weeks? "Figure on mars." Hope she wasn't caught in the debris flow.
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