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The Universe is AWESOME!

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    #332
    Kermit.de.frog
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    irishproduce wrote: »
    Anyone know why the camera images are so poor and kind of like looking through a door viewer on your front door?
    You'd have thought they'd put proper high res cameras on it.

    They were very first Images after landing. That particular camera not meant for high quality but it was the quickest they got back so they shared them. Much better images will be released later tonight apparently.


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    #333
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    They were very first Images after landing. That particular camera not meant for high quality but it was the quickest they got back so they shared them. Much better images will be released later tonight apparently.
    and those cameras still had their covers that protected them during landing on.

    It's amazing how technology marches on.
    You can get 64MP cameras on mid level Chinese smartphones these days.


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    #334
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,040 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Well,I don't know about you, but I could murder a curry.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #335
    Andrewf20
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    Leroy42 wrote: »
    Is that true? Its mind bending

    Apparently so. Most of those galaxies are billions of light years away and so the shift in view would be in the order of up to 13,900,000,000 light years vs 80 years. Very small basically.

    In reality those far away galaxies are accelerating away from us faster than light so they would grow fainter as time goes on.

    But even if they were not moving relative to us, you would barely see a change in 80 years travelled at 186,000 miles per second.

    Side note to get a sense of scales: 1 million seconds = 12 days. 1 billion seconds is over 31 years.


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    #336
    Kivaro
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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    In reality those far away galaxies are accelerating away from us faster than light so they would grow fainter as time goes on.

    ?


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    #337
    josip
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    Kivaro wrote: »
    ?


    If it's going in the opposite direction to us at more than half the speed of light and we're going more than half the speed of light then relative to us, it's going faster than the speed of light.


    Ken M.


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    #338
    Kivaro
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    josip wrote: »
    If it's going in the opposite direction to us at more than half the speed of light and we're going more than half the speed of light then relative to us, it's going faster than the speed of light.


    Ken M.
    Ah yeah. Thanks Ken.
    I thought I woke up to an alternative Universe for a brief moment.
    And yes, our Universe is awesome. It's the best one out there.


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    #339
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,474 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362825546946670592

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    #340
    Kermit.de.frog
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    #341
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,821 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Maybe it's just me, but the rocks on the surface of Mars are peppered with holes (as per the track pic above), and I think that's fascinating. Don't know why, there's only 2 known possible explanations!


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    #342
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Maybe it's just me, but the rocks on the surface of Mars are peppered with holes (as per the track pic above), and I think that's fascinating. Don't know why, there's only 2 known possible explanations!
    Another rover drilled them for samples already ?


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    #343
    Kermit.de.frog
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    https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362831783444717568


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    #344
    Potential-Monke
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Another rover drilled them for samples already ?

    He's been a busy rover then! Persaverance's latest pic is exactly what I was thinking!


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    #345
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭boardise


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Uranus is awesome.

    I was wondering about that Black Hole myself......


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    #346
    boardise
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    pnecilcaser wrote: »
    "Humans are actually made from stardust"

    ... or "nuclear waste" if you look at it another way.

    I remember Carl Sagan saying in his TV series COSMOS many millions of seconds ago

    " we are star stuff " .

    The phrase stopped me in my tracks as I tried to ponder the enormity of it.


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    #347
    auspicious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    boardise wrote: »
    Carl Sagan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g


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    #348
    Kermit.de.frog
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    boardise wrote: »
    I was wondering about that Black Hole myself......

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    #349
    silliussoddius
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    boardise wrote: »
    I remember Carl Sagan saying in his TV series COSMOS many millions of seconds ago

    " we are star stuff " .

    The phrase stopped me in my tracks as I tried to ponder the enormity of it.

    In fairness, he’s no Moby.


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    #350
    Kermit.de.frog
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    https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362948845944987648


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    #351
    dxhound2005
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    #352
    neutral bystander
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    I don't feel like its that awesome at the moment.


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    #353
    Kermit.de.frog
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    neutral bystander wrote: »
    I don't feel like its that awesome at the moment.

    I have a solution to this problem - buy a telescope!


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    #354
    magicbastarder
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    https://twitter.com/etienneshrdlu/status/1362865847702855681


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    #355
    neutral bystander
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    I have a solution to this problem - buy a telescope!

    Ye I might. Maybe it could give me some perspective.


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    #356
    StevenToast
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/etienneshrdlu/status/1362865847702855681

    Someone doesnt know a galaxy from their solar system....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #357
    not yet
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    auspicious wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

    I love this, it gives perspective on how insignificant we really are, all the gold in the world is of no use to any man on his deathbed.


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    #358
    Kivaro
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    Carl Sagan: A true legend of a man.


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    #359
    Kivaro
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    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Maybe it's just me, but the rocks on the surface of Mars are peppered with holes (as per the track pic above), and I think that's fascinating. Don't know why, there's only 2 known possible explanations!

    Following up on that, as it was a common question on Google:
    "Some of the rocks appear curiously pitted. In a separate, close-up they are clearly riddled with small holes which geologists call “vugs.” On Earth there are a number of ways such holes can form. If the rock is sedimentary, the holes can be carved out by water flowing through the rock and dissolving various minerals. But if the rock is volcanic in origin, gas bubbles that erupt from lava as it solidifies can produce similar looking features."


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    #360
    Adyx
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    I really wish they wouldn't anthropomorphise the rovers. I always think of that depressing XKCD comic.


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    #361
    Detritus70
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    neutral bystander wrote: »
    I don't feel like its that awesome at the moment.

    The universe is still awesome, but this planet isn't, because it's entirely inhabited by people.


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