Martian Cave.

What is that black spot on Mars? Turns out its an entrance to a really, really deep cave on the planet:

The hope for the HiRISE images was that we could see some details from inside the hole. But as you can see by the highly stretched version at right, there is absolutely nothing visible inside that hole. It's black black black black black. HiRISE is a very sensitive instrument, and Mars' dusty atmosphere scatters quite a bit of light around, so there is certainly light entering that cave hole and bouncing around the interior. But it seems that the cave is so big and so deep that almost none of the light that enters the cave comes out. It's deep, and it's big; the hole that we see really is just a skylight on a big subterranean room. How big? We'll never know for sure without visiting it, but I expect that Cushing and his coauthors and the HiRISE team will be crunching the numbers on the illumination conditions and the sensitivity of the camera to put a lower limit on how deep that cave must be for HiRISE to be able to see nothing at all inside it.

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00000984 - via Blue's News


Upon close examination of one particular hi-res photo of these "caves", the supposed over-hang appears to be a shoreline. Black areas can be seen between the wall and the "Abyss".
Black Crude or Texas Tea? Oil companies got dibs on Mars too I guess............
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