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SorellaLaBefana

(241 posts)
Tue Dec 3, 2024, 07:53 AM Dec 3

Actual Image taken on surface of Alien World


... the view captured last March by NASA's rolling explorer, Perseverance. The orange coloring is caused by rusted iron in the Martian dirt, some of which is small enough to be swept up by winds into the atmosphere. The blue tint near the setting Sun is caused by blue light being preferentially scattered out from the Sun by the floating dust. The light-colored clouds on the right are likely composed of water-ice and appear high in the Martian atmosphere...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241203.html


Today's Astronomy Picture of The Day is staggering: both for its beauty and for its significance.

Amazing what wonders REALITY has to bring
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Actual Image taken on surface of Alien World (Original Post) SorellaLaBefana Dec 3 OP
Beautiful. Reality bites, but it also sings. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 3 #1
Seriously thought I would click to kerouac2 Dec 3 #2
Naturally red world vs. markodochartaigh Dec 3 #3
What a pack of ugly morons wolfie001 Dec 3 #5
Yup, but they have each other don't they ... kerouac2 Dec 3 #6
Just shows how small we really are! 634-5789 Dec 3 #4
I didn't know Mars had clouds JoseBalow Dec 3 #7

kerouac2

(736 posts)
6. Yup, but they have each other don't they ...
Tue Dec 3, 2024, 10:44 AM
Dec 3

And now they are in charge. Or so they think. They are rats following snakes. That never ends well. Sadly we are in the same cage.

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