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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Dark Sand Dune on Mars
NASA ^
| January 19, 2016
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Posted on 01/19/2016 1:31:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]
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posted on
01/19/2016 1:31:48 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
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posted on
01/19/2016 1:32:10 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
What an odd-looking dune.
I got so excited about Pluto last summer, I completely forgot about checking in on the Curiosity site. I need to check back there again for other images that have been posted the past several months.
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posted on
01/19/2016 1:45:29 AM PST
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: SunkenCiv
Soooo.we fired a rocket...10 yrs ago...to land on the back of a comet/astroid last year....a good shot....but....we have never seen the other side of our own moon?.....
really?
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posted on
01/19/2016 1:47:08 AM PST
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Therapsid
To: Therapsid
The Apollo missions orbited the moon and took pictures I believe
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posted on
01/19/2016 1:49:15 AM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
To: radu
"
What an odd-looking dune."
Horizontally compressed, the explanation says. Why couldn't they just uncompress it here? By the looks of the rover, it could be as much as 5x, which would actually make it look like this:
Just a guess, though.
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posted on
01/19/2016 2:04:53 AM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Therapsid
Huh? That question makes no sense.
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posted on
01/19/2016 2:16:05 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: radu
s'more info from last month:
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posted on
01/19/2016 2:20:15 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
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posted on
01/19/2016 2:20:44 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
It was obviously compressed in the APOD pic. It’s the darkness and it sitting in the middle of what looks like relatively solid terrain that truck me as odd. Like someone dumped a large load of sand there.
But that’s what’s fun about seeing images from the other planets. One surprise after another.
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posted on
01/19/2016 2:23:55 AM PST
by
radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks! I missed that thread last month.
Love the close-up of the sand grains and it’s now my desktop wallpaper. :-)
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01/19/2016 2:29:30 AM PST
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radu
(May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
To: Telepathic Intruder
That looks like Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.
To: SunkenCiv
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01/19/2016 2:52:17 AM PST
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: SunkenCiv
What’s that white pillar-looking thing behind the “dune”? The whole scene looks like a photo shoot setup on a movie lot; and that the photo was published before all the non-essential background stuff was cropped or air brushed out. In my poor, unwashed, ignorant, pragmatic humble opinion.
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posted on
01/19/2016 5:13:49 AM PST
by
Tucker39
(Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
To: SunkenCiv
So, they found life on Mars and it turns out to be fire ants. I’m not going to Mars now that I know that.
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posted on
01/19/2016 5:24:17 AM PST
by
Purdue77
("...shall not be infringed.")
To: SunkenCiv
It’s where Hillary’s missing e-mails are buried.
To: radu
Poor air brushing of the returned photo by NASA.
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posted on
01/19/2016 6:12:21 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
To: Therapsid
"Therapsid...
just for you.
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posted on
01/19/2016 6:33:38 AM PST
by
Prospero
(Omnis caro fenum)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like mine tailings from the mines we lived at in Utah! Wonder what or WHO is on the other side!
To: Telepathic Intruder
Yep. Mine tailings, but by whom!
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