Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Martian Chiaroscuro

NASA ^ | March 22, 2014 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

Explanation: Deep shadows create dramatic contrasts between light and dark in this high-resolution close-up of the martian surface. Recorded on January 24 by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the scene spans about 1.5 kilometers across a sand dune field in a southern highlands crater. Captured when the Sun was just 5 degrees above the local horizon, only the dune crests are caught in full sunlight. With the long, cold winter approaching the red planet's southern hemisphere, bright ridges of seasonal frost line the martian dunes.

[TheOldLady]

Those are beautiful. But no one can interpret my dreams because I no longer remember them.

I remember dreams from when I was a little kid and up through my 40’s, but my dreams from
then on are just wisps in the wind.

There was a dream just before waking up this morning, but even if my life depended on it,
I wouldn’t be able to tell you what it was.

[colorado tanker]

It's like no cheese I've ever tasted.