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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mars Approach 2020
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 6 Oct, 2020
| Image Credit: Jonathan T. Grayson
Posted on 10/06/2020 4:19:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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10/06/2020 4:19:35 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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My favorite planet. Don’t tell the others.
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:20:29 PM PDT
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fwdude
(Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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Pinging the APOD List.
Today’s post has a cat in the explanation at the link. Scientist humor.
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:21:34 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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looking forward to Tomorrow’s picture: flying bat squid
Sounds like Chinese soup.
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:26:30 PM PDT
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CJ Wolf
(#wwg1wga #Godwins - What is scarier then offensive words? Not being able to say them..)
To: MtnClimber
The cat is “noticeably orange”...
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:26:54 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: fwdude
All of those Mars exploration launches a while back were for this close approach. They should be arriving about now.
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:32:57 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: fwdude
My favorite planet. Don’t tell the others.I have heard that Jupiter and Saturn were slightly annoyed, "but Uranus" didn't give a crap.
To: MtnClimber
They are watching us too!
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:43:37 PM PDT
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Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: MtnClimber
I was squinting at the marsrise last night and realized I could perceive it as a disk! So exciting!
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:44:00 PM PDT
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no-s
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:45:53 PM PDT
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Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I heard that Uranus was pissed, but that could be the Covid talking.
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posted on
10/06/2020 4:51:23 PM PDT
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ResponseAbility
(The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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posted on
10/06/2020 5:13:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: ResponseAbility
I guess it didn’t like it when they moved the testing to the rear.
To: Libloather
Obviously due to carbon emissions.
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posted on
10/06/2020 5:19:03 PM PDT
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DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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posted on
10/06/2020 5:23:01 PM PDT
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DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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I feel bad they didn’t get to finish their pirogies. I love pirogies.
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posted on
10/06/2020 5:29:01 PM PDT
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freefdny
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I’ve been checking out Mars for the last few nights. It’s really really bright compared to normal.
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posted on
10/06/2020 5:34:49 PM PDT
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Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
To: MtnClimber
We have very dark skies here in the rural area I live in, and I looked at Mars over the weekend and it was very noticeable, a bright red-orange disc in the sky. But last night and I’m afraid, again tonight, it’s going to be too smokey here in eastern California to see it.
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Mars 2020 from 5,000 Feet Image Credit & Copyright: John Kraus
Explanation: On Thursday this snapshot from a small plane 5,000 feet above Florida's Space Coast caught a rocket's trail rising into the blue morning sky. It was July's third launch of a mission from planet Earth bound for Mars. The Atlas V rocket left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from Space Launch Complex 41 at 7:50am EDT carrying NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. The car-sized Perseverance is headed for a landing at Jezero Crater on the Red Planet in February 2021. On board the sophisticated rover is the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
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10/06/2020 5:47:32 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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