Curiosity takes a snapshot of home. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=xianlee;43820891]It kind of makes you laugh how small we are yet big enough for meteors to hit us.[/QUOTE] Not really. Due to gravity, it's kind of obvious why meteors hit us.

[QUOTE=Mort and Charon;43822601]Firstly, pictures NASA downlinked on Monday, before attempting to ascend the dune, and having made a scuff in the dune to check out what the material was like. Apologies for the image quality, I had to take pictures of a lecture handout as the file hasn't been uploaded to our departmental database yet. And here is from today, after the rover successfully crossed the dune [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/FLB_444990638EDR_F0260366FHAZ00302M_.JPG[/img] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/RLB_444990726EDR_F0260366RHAZ00313M_-br.jpg[/img] Just one of the benefits of being a Geology undergrad...[/QUOTE] Yep, it's dirt

[QUOTE=Mort and Charon;43822601][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0161.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] looks like Styrofoam

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;43824005]Ruling out alien porn is naive and pessimistic. When aliens are discovered, future humans will look back on this post in particular, placing it in museums as an example of how ancient humans used to believe, and then they will go fap to alien porn.[/QUOTE][I]"All porn ever produced is right fucking there."[/I] - Winters, 2014 nothing short of poetry

I can't wait till we discover another sentient alien race which would equal 2 tiny planets full of history

[QUOTE=frozensoda;43825137]looks like Styrofoam[/QUOTE] We were hypothesising their formation in our lecture problems, and it's a bit of a conundrum as to why you have such large grains on top of extremely fine grains like that. There isn't really a definitive answer but they're likely windblown sands deposited after the finer material, or finer material was blown away leaving larger particles behind. From the size of them you can roughly estimate windspeeds using a modified Shield's parameter

it's fucking mind blowing that i can see a photo from the perspective of another planet i can see a photo of the martian surface in such high quality that i can literally pick out grains of dirt in it, and if you don't think that is goddamn incredible than you're wrong

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;43824005]Ruling out alien porn is naive and pessimistic. When aliens are discovered, future humans will look back on this post in particular, placing it in museums as an example of how ancient humans used to believe, and then they will go fap to alien porn.[/QUOTE] can't wait i want to be the world's first xenophile

[QUOTE=Superkilll307;43820502]I can see my house![/QUOTE] Mine too!

We're seeing 140 million miles in that picture. Pretty crazy.

i love going out in my backyard at night and looking up, seeing stars, billions and millions of miles away, knowing that at least one has life and that maybe, they're looking in my direction, thinking the same thing.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43820550]I can't wait for the day space tourism takes off and all the tourists on the moon will make that excact same fucking joke[/QUOTE] Except they won't, because they couldn't.