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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Face on Mars
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 4 Jul, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA, Viking 1 Orbiter

Posted on 07/04/2021 1:47:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Wouldn't it be fun if clouds were castles? Wouldn't it be fun if the laundry on the bedroom chair was a superhero? Wouldn't it be fun if rock mesas on Mars were interplanetary monuments to the human face? Clouds, though, are floating droplets of water and ice. Laundry is cotton, wool, or plastic, woven into garments. Famous Martian rock mesas known by names like the Face on Mars appear quite natural when seen more clearly on better images. Is reality boring? Nobody knows why some clouds make rain. Nobody knows if life ever developed on Mars. Nobody knows why the laundry on the bedroom chair smells like root beer. Scientific exploration can not only resolve mysteries, but uncover new knowledge, greater mysteries, and yet deeper questions. As humanity explores our universe, perhaps fun -- through discovery -- is just beginning.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 07/04/2021 1:47:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 07/04/2021 1:47:50 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; BBB333; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 07/04/2021 1:48:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Nobody had better say it looks like Hillary Clinton. LOL


4 posted on 07/04/2021 1:51:45 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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kind of creepy, like images of aftermath of pompeii. But thanks for posting. It is always interesting to see the many wonders of The Creator.


5 posted on 07/04/2021 1:52:18 PM PDT by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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Mars is swarming with black ants! ( Those hoards of black spots )


6 posted on 07/04/2021 1:55:51 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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Edgar Winter


7 posted on 07/04/2021 1:58:07 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancerโ€)
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8 posted on 07/04/2021 1:59:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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More importantly, no one knows where my other sock went.

This is all such gobblygook. The human mind is hard-wired to see faces in various patterns. This is long known.

9 posted on 07/04/2021 2:06:15 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021.)
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Goldylocks zone....

What IF, millions of years ago, Mars was in Earth’s orbit? Aren’t the planets supposed to be expanding? What about the big bang.

Think about it, if the planets are expanding, then Mars could’ve gone through the goldylocks zone once. Had life, evolve, then go extinct?


10 posted on 07/04/2021 2:07:08 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Trust God.)
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Nobody had better say it looks like Hillary Clinton. LOL

More like Helen Thomas. Same age, anyway...

11 posted on 07/04/2021 2:07:20 PM PDT by null and void (We're the only country where so many people believe pro wrestling is real and elections are honest!)
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Well in my opinion it looks even more artificial in the very high resolution image’s, still looks like a face even though they claim it’s a natural hill....


12 posted on 07/04/2021 2:16:44 PM PDT by 4bye4
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Forgot to add a link.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060926.html


13 posted on 07/04/2021 2:22:21 PM PDT by 4bye4
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14 posted on 07/04/2021 2:24:44 PM PDT by Gideon7
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Looks like what happens when I try to bake a cake.


15 posted on 07/04/2021 2:29:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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16 posted on 07/04/2021 3:24:12 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Thank you for posting! Cydonia is the one they let everyone see! Here is the terrifying secret Mars face they don't want to tell everyone about!!


17 posted on 07/04/2021 4:05:23 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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MtnClimber:
Here we go; (I am taking this seriously!)

The Face on Mars Trail Map by Jim Garvin Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program

Hike length is approximately 5.5 km or 3.6 miles one way, with a total elevation gain of nearly a thousand feet. Rating.... easy at start and midsection, with some very steep sections. Take plenty of water and oxygen.

NOTES: Starting to the SOUTH, away from the Face (hereafter FOM), the hike begins with a walk to the scree slopes at the south base of the feature, and then moves to the right (east) around the base of the FOM, and then to the NNW up to a breach in the feature about midway through the eastern middle. At this point there is a passage up the east flank of the feature, and the hike takes this route, passing between the two ridge-like prominences that outlie the eastern "battlements" of the FOM... then the hike traverses a smoother patch before it turns and skirts the summit region before finding a circuitous path to the upper reaches of the FOM (where there is a flat, bright circular patch about 100 m in diameter).

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast24may_1


18 posted on 07/04/2021 4:33:13 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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Thanks for this opportunity to have a little fun on this post! Happy 4th of July!
19 posted on 07/04/2021 4:39:11 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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No. This actually looks human.


20 posted on 07/04/2021 4:44:21 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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