These filigree "tattoo" patterns crisscrossing light-colored terrain on the Martian surface had presented researchers with a tantalizing mystery but are now known to be the work of miniature wind vortices, or Martian dust devils.

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Keywords: astronomy, astrophotography, hubble, mars, martian, nasa