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Spring on Mars Triggers Avalanche Season While going through the large amount of pictures taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE high resolution camera, a group of experts from the University of Berne, Switzerland, led by Patrick Russell have come across a series of photos showing a phenomenon strikingly resembling one happening on Earth. By the no... 10 November 2008 08:22 GMT Avalanche on Mars! The unique event has been observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, HiRISE for short, on February 19, during a scan of a region of the Red Planet's surface near the north pole. This is the first image of an avalanche ever surprised on Mars! The image release... 4 March 2008 03:22 GMT