Cool new on-the-ground picture of Mars

[Larry Kart]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110815.html

[7/4]

nice....reminds me of Long Island during the heat wave.

[A Lark Ascending]

Beautiful.

Expect Omar Shariff to appear in a haze in the distance any second.

Bet there are already 'entrepreneurs' assessing its viability as a site for a brand new casino city.

[JSngry]

Reminds me of the drive from Vegas to Albuquerque.

[T.D.]

Very cool and surprisingly Earthlike.

Reminds me of some of the landscapes in the movie No Country For Old Men...half expected to see Javier Bardem with a weird-ass haircut blowing somebody's brains out...

[papsrus]

Anyone here familiar with Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy?

Red Mars

Blue Mars

Green Mars

[A Lark Ascending]

Seems that Mars is more Philip Glass than Gustav Holst!

[Chuck Nessa]

[kinuta]

Could be a part of Baluchistan.

[Larry Kart]

As the friend who sent it to me said, "Looks like it's teeming with unseen life."

[.:.impossible]

[johnlitweiler]

Looks like the semi-desert of UT, CO, AZ, NM. "Unseen life" indeed. What is the surface temperature there?

[7/4]

As the friend who sent it to me said, "Looks like it's teeming with unseen life."

there's little red men just below the surface!

[Big Wheel]

Looks like the semi-desert of UT, CO, AZ, NM. "Unseen life" indeed. What is the surface temperature there?

Roughly, a balmy -30 degrees Celsius, though maybe a bit warmer (~0 Celsius) if the Spirit rover's data is any indication.

If there's any life there, it either lives deep in a crater where pressure is higher, or else has evolved to cope with water going straight from ice to a gas without passing through the liquid phase. Water on Mars acts like dry ice on Earth.

[BillF]

[BruceH]

The picture reminds me a lot of Nevada, only more pleasant-looking.

[Rooster_Ties]