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NASA Curiosity Mars Photos
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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The innovation in this one especially...
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Lukaku's First Touch
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Holy shit, looks like CGI. I love space.
Lord Panda
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God, those images are beautiful.
GladiusFrog
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Incredible, it's also good to see NASA stopped using a artificial red filter on the photos.
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Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Yep, but I'm wondering what they're referencing on Mars for their white balancing?
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Looks empty, boring and with nothing to do. 7/10
Lord Panda
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Wait until Disney get their hands on it
WhatDidHeSay?
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If you look far enough into the distance you'll already see a Starbucks
Well, roughly the same material as Earth after all.
But I can’t wait for humanity to set foot there.
Insane Metal
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I have Curiosity and Perseverance websites on my favs since they released. I still check both out every week. Love it.
E-Cat
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Hudo
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I weep for the universe when humanity achieves space travel technology. We will spread and fuck up everything like the virus we are.
mansoor1980
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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Not even in 1000 years will that happen. At best we may get a simple base/a place for tourism and thats it. We will never experience the pleasures of the 3 boobs woman on Mars.
niilokin
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That will mark a whole new age for humanity. I hope I'm alive to witness it!
Bitmap Frogs
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It should be possible to build cities there, self sufficient even.
E-Cat
Member
Also as a back-up -- assuming it can be made self-sustaining.
V1LÆM
Gold Member
Holy shit that's incredible!
It looks unreal. Looking at the photos I know it's real but at the same time it doesn't feel real? It's crazy to think that it's not earth and it's out there. Obviously I know Mars and other planets are real... I can't put my feelings into words lol.
When are we going to send someone there?
It looks unreal. Looking at the photos I know it's real but at the same time it doesn't feel real? It's crazy to think that it's not earth and it's out there. Obviously I know Mars and other planets are real... I can't put my feelings into words lol.
When are we going to send someone there?
VN1X
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My dude we can barely get into Earth's higher orbit, let alone the Moon. Let alone build bases some place further.
No one will ever be alive to see that shit.
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E-Cat
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PessimisticMy dude we can barely get into Earth's higher orbit, let alone the Moon. Let alone build bases some place further.
No one will ever be alive to see that shit.
VN1X
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That's just the reality of things, unfortunately.
NeoIkaruGAF
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Objectively just as drab as some places on Earth before human civilization. But very fascinating, probably for the very same reason.
ManaByte
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E-Cat
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You can't know what happens a million years in the future.
Lord Panda
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A few (thousand) boosted asteroids and comets pointed at Mars might help things along. Also good excuse for me to post this video:
We actually need to send people and establish a colony there. It's about redundancy (or backup as another poster mentioned), because on Earth we're kinda one asteroid or calamity away from extinction.
Dr.D00p
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The lifespan of any Martian colony, without support from Earth, will be finite.
BlackTron
Member
If we were to find oil in Mars, the USA would colonize it in under a decade.
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Pagusas
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Incredible stuff.
Is there a story with this image? It looks organic (fossilized, but organic)
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VN1X
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Speaking of which how many micro-meteorites hit the Earth daily and burn up? Do we know?
UltimaKilo
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Oil is not really needed, but other precious metals are. The problem is it's prohibitively expensive to bring something back from Mars, or even the moon (where there is an abundance).If we were to find oil in Mars, the USA would colonize it in under a decade.
EviLore
you made my day with this thread. Would appreciate it if you kept adding pictures!
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March 01, 2022
Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The “flower,” along with the spherical rock artifacts seen to the right, were made in the ancient past when minerals carried by water cemented the rock. Figure A shows a tighter view of the flower-like feature.
Curiosity has in the past discovered a diverse assortment of similar small features that formed when mineralizing fluids traveled through conduits in the rock. Images of such features are helping scientists understand more about the prolonged history of liquid water in Gale Crater.
Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA. JPL manages Curiosity’s mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.
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Curiosity Finds a Martian 'Flower' - NASA Science
Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm.
mars.nasa.gov
VulcanRaven
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Amazing photos. I wish we could get a proper high quality video.
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March 01, 2022
Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The “flower,” along with the spherical rock artifacts seen to the right, were made in the ancient past when minerals carried by water cemented the rock. Figure A shows a tighter view of the flower-like feature.
Curiosity has in the past discovered a diverse assortment of similar small features that formed when mineralizing fluids traveled through conduits in the rock. Images of such features are helping scientists understand more about the prolonged history of liquid water in Gale Crater.
Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA. JPL manages Curiosity’s mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.
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Curiosity Finds a Martian 'Flower' - NASA Science
Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm.
Isn't petreficaion a plausible option?
This. So fucking bizarre. Was there ever an official explanation given?
Awesome pics
Extra cool seeing those while listening to this:
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