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For those into Game of Thrones...
May. 12th, 2015 08:41 amthis is a fun little history about it's basis in the actual nearly hundred year long War of the Roses. I love especially the drawing of Jon Snow on the left.
-enjoy!!
-enjoy!!
May. 12th, 2015
Two Worlds, One Sun
May. 12th, 2015 09:17 amFrom Wikipedia as cited from the NASA site.
Around sunset and sunrise the Martian sky is pinkish-red in color, but in the vicinity of the setting sun or rising sun it is blue. This is the exact opposite of the situation on Earth.
In case you can't read the captions
FIRST PHOTO
Place: Earth > France > Marseille
Date: 18th May, 2012
Camera EOS 400D, 18 - 200mm
Damia Bouic
SECOND PHOTO
Place: > Mars > Elysium Planitia > Gale Crater
Date: 15th April, 2015
NASA / JPL / Caltech / MSSS / Damia Bouic
Pretty cool how the same man, a member of The Plantary Society, took both photographs.
And, if you want a chuckle, go to the NASA site and click on the link which reads 'not fully understood'. Tell me these guys don't have a sense of humor :)
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Around sunset and sunrise the Martian sky is pinkish-red in color, but in the vicinity of the setting sun or rising sun it is blue. This is the exact opposite of the situation on Earth.
In case you can't read the captions
FIRST PHOTO
Place: Earth > France > Marseille
Date: 18th May, 2012
Camera EOS 400D, 18 - 200mm
Damia Bouic
SECOND PHOTO
Place: > Mars > Elysium Planitia > Gale Crater
Date: 15th April, 2015
NASA / JPL / Caltech / MSSS / Damia Bouic
Pretty cool how the same man, a member of The Plantary Society, took both photographs.
And, if you want a chuckle, go to the NASA site and click on the link which reads 'not fully understood'. Tell me these guys don't have a sense of humor :)
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