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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mars Perseverance Sol 0
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 19 Feb, 2021
| Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Mars 2020
Posted on 02/19/2021 2:26:32 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: After a 203 day interplanetary voyage, and seven minutes of terror, Perseverance has landed on Mars. Confirmation of the successful landing at Jezero crater was announced from mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 12:55 pm PST on February 18. The car-sized Mars rover's Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera acquired this initial low resolution image shortly after touchdown on mission Sol 0. A protective cover is still on the camera, but the shadow of Perseverance, now the most ambitious rover sent to the Red Planet, is visible cast across the martian surface.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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02/19/2021 2:26:51 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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02/19/2021 2:27:26 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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02/19/2021 2:28:51 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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posted on
02/19/2021 2:31:05 PM PST
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: MtnClimber
Well, whoever paid for a porthole room on this cruise got taken.
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posted on
02/19/2021 2:33:09 PM PST
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: blueunicorn6
They misread the brochure. It's a pothole suite.
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02/19/2021 2:44:00 PM PST
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Blurb2350
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02/19/2021 2:45:48 PM PST
by
Adder
("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
To: Blurb2350
Ahhhh, atsa good one, Boss!
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02/19/2021 2:46:24 PM PST
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: MtnClimber
They should bring a color camera next time..... : )
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02/19/2021 4:09:52 PM PST
by
mcmuffin
(Jan. 20, 2017, Thank God!)
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; All
I can't help but wonder when some intrepid "Truther" -- with a vivid imagination and
Photoshop -- will take a close look at the area marked by the green rectangle...
...especially the "rectangular doorway" at right (and maybe, with imagination, at left)...
...and will declare the discovery of "The Ruins of an Ancient Martian City"?
TXnMA
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02/19/2021 4:10:00 PM PST
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TXnMA
(The Democrat Party has a single-element strategy: CHEATING... Reinstate Public Executions!)
To: MtnClimber
Yep, that’s Mars. Hasn’t changed much since Viking.
Why don’t we land near something interesting like Olympus Mons?
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02/19/2021 4:13:16 PM PST
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KobraKai
To: MtnClimber
Actually, If I were mission-planning the rover, I'd put the rocks on the right on the ... "closer look-see" list...
TXnMA '-)
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02/19/2021 4:18:24 PM PST
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TXnMA
(The Democrat Party has a single-element strategy: CHEATING... Reinstate Public Executions!)
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posted on
02/19/2021 5:21:21 PM PST
by
Does so
(The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
To: dragnet2
Valle de la luna, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
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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02/19/2021 6:08:46 PM PST
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Several dust devils cross a plain in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
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02/19/2021 6:12:37 PM PST
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Does so
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posted on
02/19/2021 7:37:37 PM PST
by
justme4now
(Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
To: dragnet2
dragnet2; Thanks!
What is interesting is that there are a number of dust devils on the surface at the same time.
Here is a good example of multiple man made dust devils. (BurningMan 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJkydvQTJY
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