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This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed
This nearly reduced me to tears. Reality is so fucking AWESOME.
Finally a good picture of me with Jared Padalecki
aaand the fandoms strike again
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6 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter. Once again, not artist’s renditions.
oh
ohhhhhh
*opens mouth, no sound comes out*
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Earth, Jupiter and Venus from the skyline of Mars!
incredible.
my heart feels like it’s going to explode. oh my god, this is absolutely incredible.
I don’t understand how people can look at these photos and be like “meh, whatever”.
It will always be insanely cool. I mean that is our planet. From ANOTHER FUCKING PLANET.
oh wow
This is more of space — and the future and the past — than most of us have ever thought we’d see.
What Shakespeare would say to this: ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’
(Source: theweeklyansible, via valar--dohaeris)
Curiosity, while you’re there, tell Spirit we’ll never forget. (Spirit by xkcd)
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What created this unusual hole in Mars? The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars’ Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars.
The hole appears to be an opening to an underground cavern, partly illuminated on the image right. Analysis of this and follow-up images revealed the opening to be about 35 meters across, while the interior shadow angle indicates that the underlying cavern is roughly 20 meters deep.
Why there is a circular crater surrounding this hole remains a topic of speculation, as is the full extent of the underlying cavern. Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life.
These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers.
These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers.
Nooo! Every-one knows what will happen. First, the robots will vanish, and when men eventually get there they’ll find a vast cavern floored by hundreds of large, glistening eggs…
At least one will get on the return spacecraft.
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Mars.
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The First Look at Mars’ Ocean
We knew there was water in abundance on Mars, but we never saw its ocean. This is it, as uncovered by strong new evidence found over the course of two years by the MARSIS radar on board ESA’s Mars Express.
Before this discovery, scientists suspected what could have been the shorelines of such ocean. However, this is the first time that this Mars’ ocean has been shown in all its magnitude. According to ESA, Mars Express “has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously identified, ancient shorelines on Mars.”
The sediments are low-density granular material that have been eroded away by water. They have low radar reflectivity, and were detected through all the ocean’s area, 60 to 80 meters (197 to 262 feet) under the surface of the Red Planet.
According to Jérémie Mouginot, from the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) and the University of California, Irvine, the sedimentary deposit they have discovered may be ice-rich. They are “a strong new indication that there was once an ocean here.”
Scientists now believe that there were two oceans on Mars. The first was there four billion years ago, when the weather was warm. The second one was formed three billion years ago, “when subsurface ice melted following a large impact, creating outflow channels that drained the water into areas of low elevation.” The team believes that this ocean didn’t exist long enough to serve as a environment to life formation.
According to ESA’s Mars Express Project Scientist Olivier Witasse, there’s little doubt now that there were oceans there now. But the biggest question of them all remains a mystery: “Where did all the water go?”
via Gizmodo
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