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Posted on 02/02/2018 6:37:00 AM PST by mairdie
An incredible panoramic view sent from the surface of the red planet has been created using images taken by the Mars Curiosity rover.
It reveals the landscape of one of our closest galactic neighbours, which has been home to the exploratory vehicle since it landed in Gale Crater in 2012.
One of the on-board cameras captured 16 separate scenic images that show various points on its journey, as seen from the top of the Vera Rubin Ridge, which were then stitched together to form the sweeping image.
Thanks to some clever visual effects that give the scene a blue hue, rather than the distinctive rusty red normally associated with Mars, the vista takes on a strangely familiar appearance to earthling eyes
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Still looking for it!
You know the hugs are being squeezed right back.
That’s a great graphic you found. Really like the simple way it lets you understand how Mars compares with Earth.
LOL I was thinking the exact same thing!
Looks like Hwy 95 in Nevada.
-60 deg F is the hottest it gets on Mars. Too cold for this human.
Beautiful! Looks like a south-western landscape.
MARS
Check o Lawnchair
Check o Ice Tea
What! o 250 degree weather
Meteorite ALH84001 was blasted off the surface of Mars by a comet or asteroid 15 million years ago, and Nasa researchers said it contains proof the Red Planet was once teeming with bugs which lived at the bottom of shallow pools and lakes.
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HA!
That’s exactly what earth will look like if the Dem’s have their way.
Fascinating times we live in. Every month or so, we have some sort of astrological phenomena that hasn’t happened in decades, hundreds of years. What a privelege to live in these times!!/s
No way that’s Mars. I don’t see the flag the astronauts left when they were there.
On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert
Anyone know the elevations of those mountains in the background?
That’s funny right there
Those idiots on Youtube will see houses ,buildings , cars trucks and a Burger King ,LOL
Looks like inter mountain Nevada.
Isn’t that Hwy 50 over on the right?
It is beautiful in a very desolate way...they did a great job in that movie “The Martian”-it looked just like that!
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