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It's amazing the similarities that can be found on our neighbor planet. This could easily be mistaken for an overcast day somewhere in Nevada. This photo was taken by Curiosity rover on March 19 2021 and is a tiled mosaic of 21 images.
The thought of the possibility to just stand right there, feeling almost exactly like here on earth (ignoring the necessary protective equipment) is mindblowing.
I'd love to be able experience. I imagine it's like visiting another country for the first time, expecting it to be this wildly different place and then realizing that it's just more people going about the same things as back home, but in a slightly different way.
Exactly, you 100% got me.
Think about how millions of years nothing happened except the wind that probably grinded the hill to its shape today. Millions of years of silence. Meanwhile on earth big civilizations came and go. Pyramids were built. Every single day millions of storys happen. Its really weird for me. But i love it.
It’s also amazing that the sky on Mars is tinted blue at sunrise and sunset. It’s theorized that an astronaut on mars would perceive the sky as bluer since there are lower light levels. A clear morning on Mars could also be mistaken for a clear day in Nevada
Yeah, it'd be pretty cool to see red skies during the day fade to a beautiful blue sunset.
Huh. What are those clouds composed of? Certainly not water, right?
No, mostly carbon-dioxide ice and small amounts of water ice, as opposed to the liquid water clouds we have here.
Some are actually, from JPL:
"Most Martian clouds hover no more than about 37 miles (60 kilometers) in the sky and are composed of water ice. But the clouds Curiosity has imaged are at a higher altitude, where it’s very cold, indicating that they are likely made of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-captures-shining-clouds-on-mars
It's pretty crazy to think of the temperatures of the different solar system bodies. Venus has temperatures hot enough to cause molten metal rain, while Saturn's moon Titan has liquid methane oceans and Pluto has snow of frozen Nitrogen. Then you have the insane pressure and temperatures found in the core of Jupiter that causes hydrogen to exhibit some properties of a metal (metallic hydrogen).
Another pic that looks so earth like.
It's really eerie the similarities of images from Mars, it's pretty easy to picture early Mars hosting liquid water.
Even some of the photos of Venus are reminiscent of Earth, if you ignored the temperatures hot enough to melt lead, all the sulfur, and the crushing atmospheric pressure lol.
I've been to Nevada and can confirm it does look just like this.