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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Perseverance 360: Unusual Rocks and the Search for Life on Mars
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 9 Mar, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, ASU, MSSS

Posted on 03/09/2021 3:05:22 PM PST by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

Isn’t this pano the same as this one from 02/03/2021?

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25674/perseverances-mastcam-z-first-high-resolution-panorama/

I think they are over promoting their photography.


21 posted on 03/09/2021 4:38:25 PM PST by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden or Kamella isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!)
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To: jigsaw

I wonder what would cause a big rock, just sitting there untouched, what would cause it to just Crack in half?? there are several on the right side of the image...


22 posted on 03/09/2021 4:52:55 PM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: sit-rep

one thing i CANT determine...**


23 posted on 03/09/2021 4:54:31 PM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: MtnClimber
And just beyond those hills . . .

I Shot An Arrow (Twilight Zone)

24 posted on 03/09/2021 5:04:40 PM PST by Oatka
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To: sit-rep

Temperature changes probably cracked the rock, but certainly nothing ‘decided’ to crack it as might happen here on earth.

Of course, a liberal might believe it’s just a rock bending over away from him.


25 posted on 03/09/2021 5:11:22 PM PST by jigsaw (God Bless Our Wonderful Troops.)
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To: BenLurkin

IBUJ


26 posted on 03/09/2021 5:14:13 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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To: jigsaw

Don’t give the libs any new ideas. They want everything else to bend over before them.


27 posted on 03/09/2021 5:18:24 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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LOL ... That’s so true!


28 posted on 03/09/2021 5:21:17 PM PST by jigsaw (God Bless Our Wonderful Troops.)
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To: MtnClimber

That is really cool... Where’s the monolith?


29 posted on 03/09/2021 5:22:04 PM PST by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: MtnClimber
Looks like 29 palms, without the charm.

Would make a great artillery training range.

30 posted on 03/09/2021 5:28:26 PM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Track9

“I bet that’s what vegas looked like before mo green built casinos.”

I know that you are making a joke a la The Godfather II but just for the record, Bugsy Siegel started the Las Vegas strip. ;-)


31 posted on 03/09/2021 5:45:36 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (I always refer to Otto Preminger's quote about actors: "Actors are like cattle!")
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To: Track9
I bet that’s what vegas looked like before mo green built casinos.

Somebody should have kept an eye out for Mo.

32 posted on 03/09/2021 5:48:21 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 21twelve

Two of them, they repeat. Always upper left of each image. I think its dust on the lens. They always float above and slightly to the right of a cartoon footprint (chubby exclamation point?) near the foot of the hill, probably a dust nugget too.


33 posted on 03/09/2021 5:56:03 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: MtnClimber

Looks it Landed in a dry wash. Good place for exploring, but they need to get it moved out before the next rain! :)


34 posted on 03/09/2021 6:16:03 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Oatka
I remember that episode--Three Mars-bound US spacemen survive a crash, and crawl unsuccessfully to find sustenance.

My Dad, a pilot, spotted contrails in the "Martian" sky, and made the first "spoiler-alert" of my young life!

35 posted on 03/10/2021 1:58:38 AM PST by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: MtnClimber

We are alone...


36 posted on 03/10/2021 1:59:11 AM PST by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: Does so
I remember that episode--Three Mars-bound US spacemen survive a crash, and crawl unsuccessfully to find sustenance.
My Dad, a pilot, spotted contrails in the "Martian" sky, and made the first "spoiler-alert" of my young life!

LOL. That's like spotting tire tracks on a road the stage coach is running on.

What got me was this scene - I though the guy was drawing the French Cross of Lorraine - and the ending caught me by surprise.

37 posted on 03/10/2021 8:15:59 AM PST by Oatka
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