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Martian Skies
Martian Skies
As the Phoenix Lander rampages around the Martian surface, photos from other missions are bound to surface.

Here are some.

Includes a link to The Martian Weather Report picked by pocksucket 3 months ago
tags mars martian lander phoenix skies photos
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 fentwin
3 months ago
Truly awe inspiring photographs.


Thanks for posting.


I see pictures like these and I think I get a hint of the feelings early explorers here on Earth must've felt.
I wanna go! I wanna go!
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 pocksuck...
3 months ago
« fentwin : Truly awe inspiring photographs.


Thanks for posting.


I see pictures like these and I think I get a hint of the feelings early explorers here on Earth must've felt.
I wanna go! I wanna go!
I have to say I was a little weirded out by the photos of dust devils that were run together as an animation.

Somehow that brought home a sort of realisation that Mars (and by extension all the other planets orbiting all the other stars out there) is a real place where real things are happening at this very moment.

This is not an epiphany in terms of information I hadn't until now realised, more a raggedy hole just punched in one of my defence mechanisms.
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 chappy
3 months ago
« fentwin : Truly awe inspiring photographs.


Thanks for posting.


I see pictures like these and I think I get a hint of the feelings early explorers here on Earth must've felt.
I wanna go! I wanna go!
I'll get you some tickets as soon as my trip ends....
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 fentwin
3 months ago
« pocksucket :.....

Somehow that brought home a sort of realisation that Mars (and by extension all the other planets orbiting all the other stars out there) is a real place where real things are happening at this very moment.

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Exactly. Spot on.
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 fentwin
3 months ago
« chappy : I'll get you some tickets as soon as my trip ends....

Thank you Capt. Chappy, and Mr. Owsley. :)
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 drzima
3 months ago
AWESOME.
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 Beeeny
3 months ago
Can someone help me with one of the pics - On the fourth pic up from the bottom (the one with the crater), part of the description reads:
"Phoenix and its parachute can be barely seen in the larger image with 10 km wide crater informally called "Heimdall" in the background. Although it appears that Phoenix is descending into the crater, it is actually about 20 kilometers in front of the crater."

My question is, if that crater is 10 km wide and fills the frame, how can that parachute be 20 km in front of it (towards the camera)and still be visible?
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 prish
3 months ago
Two separate photos? I think the one showing the chute was taken separately from the one of the crater...
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 pocksuck...
3 months ago
« Beeeny:
My question is, if that crater is 10 km wide and fills the frame, how can that parachute be 20 km in front of it (towards the camera)and still be visible?
With apologies for the roughness of the diagram (I'm at work and had to do it between other tasks) this should hopefully help you understand much better than any attempt at description:

Click here to show image


The parachute is 13km above the crater and 20km in front of it, but the POV from which the image was taken is considerably further away in both planes.

Make sense now?
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