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Patterns Unique, Yet Familiar
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This close-up image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gives the impression of looking like bacterial cells and their internal structures which travel and split in the process of life. These features are fractal in nature: the same image is preserved through different scales, with the pattern repeating eternally.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePatterns Unique, Yet Familiar. NASA/JPL, 2017-08-21. Public domain. ID: PIA21880.
