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Related: About this forumActual Image taken on surface of Alien World
... the view captured last March by NASA's rolling explorer, Perseverance. The orange coloring is caused by rusted iron in the Martian dirt, some of which is small enough to be swept up by winds into the atmosphere. The blue tint near the setting Sun is caused by blue light being preferentially scattered out from the Sun by the floating dust. The light-colored clouds on the right are likely composed of water-ice and appear high in the Martian atmosphere...
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241203.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241203.html
Today's Astronomy Picture of The Day is staggering: both for its beauty and for its significance.
Amazing what wonders REALITY has to bring
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SorellaLaBefana
Dec 3
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Bernardo de La Paz
(51,288 posts)1. Beautiful. Reality bites, but it also sings. . . . . nt
kerouac2
(746 posts)2. Seriously thought I would click to
See a pic from another world look like this one. I like yours better.
markodochartaigh
(2,221 posts)3. Naturally red world vs.
unnaturally orange world.
wolfie001
(3,848 posts)5. What a pack of ugly morons
kerouac2
(746 posts)6. Yup, but they have each other don't they ...
And now they are in charge. Or so they think. They are rats following snakes. That never ends well. Sadly we are in the same cage.
634-5789
(4,334 posts)4. Just shows how small we really are!
Great post!
JoseBalow
(5,656 posts)7. I didn't know Mars had clouds
I assume not enough moisture for precipitation?