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By: Thursday Round-up « Where Landsquid Fear to Tread

Thursday Round-up « Where Landsquid Fear to Tread — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:11:44 +0000

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By: Slacker Astronomy

Slacker Astronomy — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:12:40 +0000

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By: HvP

HvP — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:32:48 +0000

Wouter Lievens, thanks for the info.

It’s also significant that our space agencies are usually able to expose a relatively static scene for different shots at different wavelengths and then recombine them. This makes the reduction in image resolution for individual color pictures simply useless most of the time.

By: Sneaky Mid-Week Starlinks

Sneaky Mid-Week Starlinks — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:40:22 +0000

[...] Sunset on Mars. Awesome video. Sometimes humans impress me as a species. (Thanks Genevieve!) [...]

By: rob

rob — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:04:13 +0000

sailors on mars must have a hard time predicting the weather:

gray sky at night, sailor’s delight.
gray sky in morning, sailor’s warning

By: A Mars Odyssey » Blog Archive » Mars Rover May Have Lost Power for Good - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:44:46 +0000

[...] Mars in Jan. 2004 as part of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission –– has failed to relay …Sunset on MarsDiscover Magazine (blog)all 3 news [...]

By: PsychoDad

PsychoDad — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:28:54 +0000

” Mars has very pretty blue sunsets.. ….Blue sunsets?”

Any color you like, just tell the studio what color you prefer.

“I know, it may not look like much, but think about what you’re seeing: a sunset on another ~~world~~ soundstage.”

Gullible cretins.

By: Watch the Sun Set on Mars [Video] | grady53sims

Watch the Sun Set on Mars [Video] | grady53sims — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:43:17 +0000

[...] the Sun Set on Mars [Video] Posted on November 16, 2010 by grady53sims Here’s a video of a sunset on Mars, assembled from photographs taken by the Mars rover Opportunity. Mars! You know that funny [...]

By: Spike Redding

Spike Redding — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:16:33 +0000

6 kristy, it was “Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun”, appropriately enough. That was the American release title of the film called “Doppelganger” in UK. Starred Herbert Lom.

By: Ken B

Ken B — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:00:36 +0000

Dali Parton (10):

andy says: Pity it is not in colour, Mars has very pretty blue sunsets.

Blue sunsets?

Having had a Martian sunset as my desktop wallpaper for what seems like several years now, I can attest that Martian sunsets are, in fact, blue.

Now, let me find that image online again…

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html

By: The Gear Head Skeptic

The Gear Head Skeptic — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:42:27 +0000

One or two orders of magnitude greater than any of us would like, I’m sure.

But things like this serve to remind us once in a while of the amazing things we as a species are capable of achieving, and also remind us that the future holds wonders we can’t even imagine right now. If we keep that faith in ourselves, and our capacity to do the impossible, we will continue to resolve those Earth-bound worries one by one over time.

Just like we have always done.

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:37:09 +0000

“I remember that the good we do, the awe we feel, and the inspiration we can generate are mighty.”

This. Absolutely this.

By: QuietDesperation

QuietDesperation — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:06:06 +0000

I know there are worries here on Earth

Yeah, one or two.

By: Astronews Daily (2455517)

Astronews Daily (2455517) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:53:27 +0000

[...] Sunset on Mars – I know, it may not look like much, but think about what you’re seeing: a sunset on another world. And those images were taken by a robotic probe that took years to design and build, months to travel the hundreds of millions of kilometers to get to Mars, a harrowing few minutes to descend on a breath of fire through the thin air to land on the surface, and then nearly seven years to travel the landscape long, long past its design specifications. -Phil Plait / Bad Astronomy [...]

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:41:36 +0000

It’s true. We forget far too often to remember where we are.

I am currently in a completely different world compared to what I am used to. I have the great opportunity to be in Namibia at the H.E.S.S.-telescope at the moment. Four weeks have gone by already, only one more to go. But somehow, I have the odd feeling, that I haven’t appreciated where I really am. Literally, on the other side of the world. Different type of vegetation, different (but not less tasty ) animals, the most beautiful night sky, humidity on low rates I, as a central European, have never seen or felt before. It is truly one of the most amazing things I’ve ever done — but somehow, I have not really thought about it, yet.

I should do it now!

Greetings from the other side of the planet!

By: Pepijn

Pepijn — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:40:29 +0000

At the end there you can clearly see the Sun glinting off the glass dome of a Martian city.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:19:28 +0000

That’s incredible. Quite eerie when the Sun reaches the horizon and then below, you see the horizon quite clearly and it looks like it might be on Earth… except there’s no trees, bulidings, or NOTHING on the horizon. It looks spooky.

By: Wouter Lievens

Wouter Lievens — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:17:56 +0000

HvP: your explanation is mostly correct, but I want to nitpick: most color sensors use a Bayer filter, which uses 1 red, 1 blue and 2 green filters per four pixels. So essentially you decrease your resolution by 4, not by 3.

By: bassmanpete

bassmanpete — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:59:19 +0000

GHS @5 What you say is so true. I was born in 1944 and my older brother introduced me to science fiction at an early age. Although we (in the sense of manned missions) aren’t traveling around the solar system or the galaxy as depicted in many of the sf stories I read in the ’50s, in many ways the world we live in today is way beyond what I imagined all those years ago.

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:52:41 +0000

Cue the music from the scene in Star Wars were Luke S watches the double sunset on Tattooine.

By: Navneeth

Navneeth — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:34:40 +0000

I find it surprising, given the rate at which the events take place in the “video,” that sky does not seem to darken much.

By: Atardecer marciano « Series divergentes

Atardecer marciano « Series divergentes — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:18:11 +0000

[...] en Bad Astronomy, de Phil Plait, quien, por cierto, agrega: I know, it may not look like much, but think about what [...]

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:44:22 +0000

I got your sunset on another world right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hcuLVOF__I

By: Watch the Sun Set on Mars [Video] | Cool Links

Watch the Sun Set on Mars [Video] | Cool Links — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:17:51 +0000

[...] a video of a sunset on Mars, assembled from photographs taken by the Mars rover Opportunity. Mars! You know that funny [...]

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Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:17:19 +0000

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