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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Shadow of a Martian Robot
NASA ^ | 5 Jun, 2024 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, ASU, NeV-T, Perseverance Rover; Processing & Copyright: Nevil

Posted on 06/05/2024 11:34:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Perseverance rover exploring Mars. Perseverance has been examining the Red Planet since 2021, finding evidence of its complex history of volcanism and ancient flowing water, and sending breathtaking images across the inner Solar System. Pictured here in February of 2024, Perseverance looks opposite the Sun and across Neretva Vallis in Jezero Crater, with a local hill visible at the top of the frame. The distinctively non-human shadow of the car-sized rover is visible below center, superposed on scattered rocks. Perseverance, now working without its flying companion Ingenuity, continues to search Mars for signs of ancient life.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 06/05/2024 11:34:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 06/05/2024 11:34:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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3 posted on 06/05/2024 11:34:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔


4 posted on 06/05/2024 11:35:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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5 posted on 06/05/2024 11:36:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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6 posted on 06/05/2024 11:38:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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"Has the Perseverance rover found the flag yet?"


7 posted on 06/05/2024 11:40:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Looks like Tom Servo.


8 posted on 06/05/2024 11:40:45 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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ISWYDT


9 posted on 06/05/2024 11:43:24 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore?)
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars . . . .

On seeing ProtectOurFreedom’s post, I thought better of including a reference to Mona (from the flick).


10 posted on 06/05/2024 12:00:54 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
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Perseverance... continues to search Mars for signs of ancient life."

Swell. A $2.75 billion effort of "tilting at windmills" on Mars.

11 posted on 06/05/2024 12:21:16 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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If I had the time, I’d ‘shop’ a human head holding a phone shadow to the right of it and post it to sm.

lol

(hint/hint)


12 posted on 06/05/2024 12:27:57 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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13 posted on 06/05/2024 12:37:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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Somewhere somebody can say they are going to work on Mars again today. It must be odd to be on a clock slightly out of sync with Earth time.


14 posted on 06/06/2024 4:25:17 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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15 posted on 06/06/2024 8:14:59 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Looks like good farmland. Average mount of rocks....


16 posted on 06/06/2024 3:11:58 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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Total Tangent.....search term "Rock Farm" finds this:

How Does Rock Farming Work

[My Little Pony] How exactly does rock farming work?

"Ah took a trip to a rock farm for the holidays, but Ah still don't have the slightest inkling what they're actually doing there. They haul a bunch o' boulders from field to field, and there were a lot of shiny crystals growing in a nearby cave, but Ah still can't figure out what use they're getting from the rocks and how pushing a bunch o' boulders around helps them at all.

Does anypony have a solid explanation for this, or should I just chalk it up as one of the great mysteries of Equestria?"

"MLP" OK.... not going to explore it any further than this.

Humm. For balance....short SciFi video "Rockfish"

Rockfish

17 posted on 06/08/2024 10:01:50 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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