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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave You Ever Seen Another Moon in an Alien Sky? (Daily Kos)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/30/1138066/-Have-you-ever-seen-another-moon-in-an-alien-skySUN SEP 30, 2012 AT 05:45 AM EDT
Have you ever seen another moon in an alien sky?
by Troubadour
The Curiosity rover turned its cameras upward for a first-ever clear, daylight color photograph of Phobos over Mars.
Note: The black dot to the left of Phobos is just a bad pixel. The color of the overall image is characteristic of the Martian sky with a low dust load - under totally clear conditions, the sky is slate-gray at the zenith due to the thinness of the atmosphere and pales to a somewhat brighter shade closer to the horizon. Blown up:
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Have You Ever Seen Another Moon in an Alien Sky? (Daily Kos) (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Sep 2012
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Kindly Refrain
(423 posts)1. That is kick ass!
I wish our moon looked like a potato.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)2. I love Curiosity. Almost as much as Hubble.
k&r
kentauros
(29,414 posts)3. Then you're going to love the 6.5-meter James Webb Space Telescope
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)4. Oh yes, I feel the love already!
Can't wait to see the Deep Field through this one's eyes!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)12. <----- sensor envy
nolabear
(41,987 posts)5. I'm having an absolute geekgasm! WOW.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)6. K & R !!!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)7. We have a man on our moon. Looks like they do too.
Do all moons have a man on them?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)8. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears in rain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_soliloquy
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)9. Replicant. n/t
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)10. Neil Armstrong was famous for telling unfunny jokes about the moon,...
.....and then ending them with, "I guess you had to be there."
derby378
(30,252 posts)11. Bad, naughty pixel!
But a very cool picture nonetheless.