Nasa shows stunning landscape images of Mars

[Desinishon]

These amazing photo of Mars's landscapes taken by courisity.

Newly released photographs from NASA show the landscape of Mars in a way we've never seen before.

The space agency posted the photos to Facebook on Friday. The color images were gathered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in a region known as "Murray Buttes". ( why butt xD )

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So, you like these images, any thoughts about them?

 

[Percy]

OH MY GOD I SEE MARK WATNEY!

Honestly, its so cool that tech today can take this kind of pictures and we can observe the landscape of other planets too!

 

[moon]

Eerie. Looks like The Martian, yea. So strange to realize that the sky probably has another color there, if any at all.

 

[Desinishon]

OH MY GOD I SEE MARK WATNEY!

Honestly, its so cool that tech today can take this kind of pictures and we can observe the landscape of other planets too!

XD for a sec i thought I saw nosepass in 2nd pic xD.

different kind of gases, rocks, maybe they find a valcano or or maybe martian desi X) Who knows? Ahhh! Too much to find out.

 

[gimmepie]

Eerie. Looks like The Martian, yea. So strange to realize that the sky probably has another color there, if any at all.

You can see the sky in the pictures. It definitely has a different colour because of the different composition of the atmosphere and lots of dust getting up there.

 

[esperance]

These images are so cool! It's neat to see that Mars isn't exactly the red planet we like to think it is.

 

[Tsutarja]

Stunning images indeed! For what it's worth, the color of the sky is based on the gases that encompass Mars's atmosphere, which is mostly made of carbon dioxide. 8)

 

[HamtaroTumin]

Cool cool cool!!!

 

[tranceking26]

These pictures are awesome. Hope to see more soon.

 

[Alex]

It's incredible that I can sit here on my bed and look at recent images of Mars. That would have been mind-boggling one hundred years ago.

I also get a looming sense of what could've been for our planet. Had we been just a little too close or too far away from the sun, it could look a lot like Mars here. Makes you appreciate life.

 

[gimmepie]

It's incredible that I can sit here on my bed and look at recent images of Mars. That would have been mind-boggling one hundred years ago.

I also get a looming sense of what could've been for our planet. Had we been just a little too close or too far away from the sun, it could look a lot like Mars here. Makes you appreciate life.

I think what really makes it eerie, is that it looks like you could just hop out a space shuttle or something and walk around, enjoy the views. Then suddenly it hits you that you couldn't breath and you'd likely freeze to death depending on the time of day.

 

[gimmepie]

I think that once we get humans to that planet, I think that it'd probably be possible to change the atmosphere enough to support human life and make the air thick enough to support a decent temperature change. But right now it's still amazing that we can even see it like this. It was a big deal when we made it to the moon, but to be seeing photos of another planet similar to ours from such an everyday composure was unheard of just 30 years ago.

I wonder how different these photos would look if the atmosphere was thicker/had more oxygen. Probably not too much different but it's an interesting thought.

 

[Desinishon]

I wonder how different these photos would look if the atmosphere was thicker/had more oxygen. Probably not too much different but it's an interesting thought.

About thicker atmosphere thing.....the closer you're to sun the warmer you are xD At same time warmer planet has thicker atmosphere. You see....Mars is at about 1.4 astronomical units from the sun. I expect that the density of sunlight therefore is about half what we get on Earth. I guess that we should be able to caculate from there but I dunno. It's just a assumption though.

 

[gimmepie]

About thicker atmosphere thing.....the closer you're to sun the warmer you are xD At same time warmer planet has thicker atmosphere. You see....Mars is at about 1.4 astronomical units from the sun. I expect that the density of sunlight therefore is about half what we get on Earth. I guess that we should be able to caculate from there but I dunno. It's just a assumption though.

Oh I don't expect the brightness would change much, if at all. There's no changing the distance. But a different atmosphere would change how the light itself interacted with the planet.

Mars' atmosphere has nothing to do with how far it is from the sun. The prevailing theory right now is that it's simply too small for its gravity to maintain much in the way of an atmosphere which is a theory supported by Mercury and dwarf planets like Pluto or Sedna.

 

[Desinishon]

Oh I don't expect the brightness would change much, if at all. There's no changing the distance. But a different atmosphere would change how the light itself interacted with the planet.

Mars' atmosphere has nothing to do with how far it is from the sun. The prevailing theory right now is that it's simply too small for its gravity to maintain much in the way of an atmosphere which is a theory supported by Mercury and dwarf planets like Pluto or Sedna.

Ah! about the sun thing it's just simply me telling how much thicker atmosphere Mars requires than earth.

I expect that the density of sunlight therefore is about half what we get on Earth

Just stating how much thicker atmosphere it'll require if we go by density of sunlight. That's all c:

And about theory I may be little off about these things nowadays but the least I got about gravity is that Mars's gravity is 64% less than earth to be precise. At just 0.38 of the Earth standard, a person who weighs 100 kg on Earth would weigh only 38 kg on Mars. Main reasons of this is difference in radius, mass and density. So other thing is same as theory you state xD.