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Breathtaking NASA Image Shows a Magical 'Sea of Dunes' on Mars
https://www.sciencealert.com ^
| 12 APRIL 2021
| JOSHUA ZITSER
Posted on 04/12/2021 10:22:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
On Thursday, NASA released a stunning photo of a sea of dunes on Mars.
It also shows wind-sculpted lines surrounding Mars' frosty northern polar cap.
The section captured in the shot represents an area that is 31 kilometers (19 miles) wide, NASA said. The sea of dunes, however, actually covers an area as large as Texas.
The photo is a false color image, meaning that the colors are representative of temperatures. Blue represents cooler climes, and the shades of yellow mark out "sun-warmed dunes," the US space agency wrote.
The photo is made of a combination of images captured by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiter, NASA wrote.
Captured during the period from December 2002 to November 2004, the breathtaking images have been released to mark the 20th anniversary of Odyssey.
The Mars Odyssey orbiter is a robotic spacecraft circling Mars that uses a thermal imager to detect evidence of water and ice on the planet.
It was launched in 2001, making it the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: mars; odyssey
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No worm-sign, yet, though.................
To: Red Badger
“The Sleeper Must Awaken!”
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:23:33 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
To: Red Badger
Looks like a bunch of birds jammed together. A Flock of Seagulls?
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:25:03 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: Red Badger
These pictures are from 20 years ago! Is this the best NASA can do, rehash old pictures?
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:26:02 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
To: RandallFlagg
Biden’s naptime?...................
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:26:55 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: LastDayz
“Looks like a bunch of birds jammed together. A Flock of Seagulls?”
Almost like a space aged love song
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:30:06 AM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
To: Red Badger
Mushrooms
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:33:25 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger
Anyone here wanna live in that desert chip hole?
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:44:05 AM PDT
by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
To: DannyTN
Magic Mushrooms?....................
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:45:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:46:50 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Harpotoo
If you look really close, you can see Wendy and DAnny running
Around in it...
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:49:10 AM PDT
by
tm61
(Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
To: DannyTN
I guess that’s the morel of the story..
To: Red Badger
Looks like a Morel Mushroom.
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:51:49 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
To: neverevergiveup
I guess that’s the morel of the story.Ooohhh!
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:51:58 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger
First thing that came to mind!
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21728331/sand_worm_lighting.jpg)
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posted on
04/12/2021 10:54:16 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: carriage_hill
Morel less.................
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posted on
04/12/2021 11:05:14 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: HombreSecreto
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posted on
04/12/2021 11:40:24 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: Red Badger
I just love these puns! Why, if I was holding a pun contest I couldn’t planet any better!
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posted on
04/12/2021 11:43:16 AM PDT
by
Mister Tee
(The liberals "hail mary"...coronavirus)
To: Mister Tee
I call it ‘Morel Equivalency’..............................
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posted on
04/12/2021 11:54:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
That actually resembles the Gobi Desert from about 39 thousand feet. That's the scenery from the air for a good hour and a half of flight time Guangzhou to Urumqi. Never saw anything like it anywhere else.
PS: No Spice Worms there either.
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posted on
04/12/2021 12:39:00 PM PDT
by
katana
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