Posted on 06/05/2021 3:26:47 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The weathered and layered face of Mount Mercou looms in the foreground of this mosaic from the Curiosity Mars rover's Mast Camera. Made up of 21 individual images the scene was recorded just after sunset on March 19, the 3,063rd martian day of Curiosity's on going exploration of the Red Planet. In the martian twilight high altitude clouds still shine above, reflecting the light from the Sun below the local horizon like the noctilucent clouds of planet Earth. Though water ice clouds drift through the thin martian atmosphere, these wispy clouds are also at extreme altitudes and could be composed of frozen carbon dioxide, crystals of dry ice. Curiosity's Mast Cam has also imaged iridescent or mother of pearl clouds adding subtle colors to the martian sky.
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Hmmm... Are you sure that pix is from Mars? Looks like Arizona.
I can’t vouch for it because I did not take it myself. That is my story.
Arizona....
Agree.
Like when they made a documentary of having John Ford taken out to the settings of Stagecoach and others in the West. Most of it looked like that.
Not Arizona. No ocean-front property.
As did most every planet Captain Kirk ever fought aliens on.
Kirk records his latest report: "We find ourselves on yet another planet strangely identical to the California studio backlot."
Gene Roddenberry to Kirk: "But totally not similar to the long unemployment line for mouthy actors."
Kirk: "Input received and understood."
Chemtrails. I blame the rover.
no signs of any water erosion I can see.
Arizona? NFW.
We are waiting for Charlton Heston to appear.
Was taken on that movie set everyone knows is in Hollyweird left over from filming the moon landings.
Harambe’s mate knows all about it and that fake flag left on Mars.
Heck, that looks like Ft Irwin.
I bet it did look a lot like Earth once upon a time, too. I got a theory based on biblical clues, but haven’t confirmed it yet.
Clouds above the rim of "Endurance Crater" in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. These clouds occur in a region of strong vertical shear. The cloud particles (ice in this martian case) fall out, and get dragged along away from the location where they originally condensed, forming characteristic streamers. Opportunity took this picture with its navigation camera during the rover's 269th martian day (Oct. 26, 2004). (NASA/JPL)
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