Larry Kart Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110815.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 nice....reminds me of Long Island during the heat wave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 Reminds me of the drive from Vegas to Albuquerque. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papsrus Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 Anyone here familiar with Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy? Red Mars Blue Mars Green Mars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 Seems that Mars is more Philip Glass than Gustav Holst! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 Could be a part of Baluchistan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted August 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 As the friend who sent it to me said, "Looks like it's teeming with unseen life." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlitweiler Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 Looks like the semi-desert of UT, CO, AZ, NM. "Unseen life" indeed. What is the surface temperature there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 16, 2011 Report Share Posted August 16, 2011 The picture reminds me a lot of Nevada, only more pleasant-looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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