r/interesting • u/SwimmerLeather5333 • 14h ago
NATURE NASA released the the clearest images of Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has sent back its latest images from the Martian surface, giving us another incredibly detailed look at the rocks, terrain and landscape of a world millions of miles away. The rover continues to explore Mars while sending new images and science back to Earth.
1.5k
u/EnduringFulfillment 14h ago
Looks like Nevada lol
365
u/PrimordialXY 13h ago
I live in Nevada. That was my first thought as well
188
u/Fine_Yogurtcloset738 12h ago edited 11h ago
I don't live in Nevada. That was my first thought as well
→ More replies (4)142
u/notcomplainingmuch 12h ago
I live in Finland. This looks like Arizona.
125
u/Goldeneyes92 11h ago
I live in Arizona, this looks like Finland.
58
u/Any_Pie_2282 11h ago
I’m a softball coach.
→ More replies (1)74
u/Successful-River-828 11h ago
I have soft balls
→ More replies (6)43
u/Deep_Grapefruit6725 10h ago
I ball soft coaches
43
26
u/Eycetea 11h ago
As someone also from Arizona, this is Nevada friend
→ More replies (1)17
u/CarelessShrimppp 10h ago
Im nevada in live, arizona is friend
→ More replies (1)7
8
→ More replies (12)6
10
→ More replies (6)6
29
u/RelationshipTough887 12h ago
I live in Australia and Nevada was my first thought too
→ More replies (2)25
u/SomeDumbPenguin 12h ago
Don't they use that region as a general test bed when they develop and build these rovers?
26
→ More replies (1)5
u/MR_Happy2008 10h ago
Yes the former Nevada test site which you know just tested nuclear weapons nothing crazy
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (13)5
115
u/Coady417 12h ago
Let’s purposely start a conspiracy that there is no rover on Mars and insist it’s in the desert in Nevada.
43
u/ComfortableChapter65 11h ago
Let’s also start a conspiracy that Nevada was created by ancient Martians to replicate their homeland.
6
u/NowYouaSeeWhyYouScum 9h ago
And they decided to leave when John Smith discovered the legend of their magic underwear, fortunately he was looking in the wrong place to the east.
5
u/Weak-Introduction124 8h ago
Personally, I subscribe to John Smith and Jesus building the pyramids in Nevada as beacons for Ancient Aliens and the aliens relocated them to Egypt and invested resources into hieroglyphic fraud to fool us into believing they were always in Egypt
→ More replies (2)3
→ More replies (3)6
u/LordMarmite 7h ago
Nevada is stage 1 alien terraforming
→ More replies (1)3
u/Pristine_Feeling_723 7h ago
Or it's where the aliens gave up terraforming, thought we'd never notice
14
u/lorddragonstrike 9h ago
Please don't. Last time someone did we wound up with the flat earthers and we cant seem to get rid of them.
10
u/Karl_Hungus_42069 10h ago
I guarantee you don't have to "start" that conspiracy. The fact you had that thought means its already been around for years
→ More replies (2)9
u/nss68 12h ago
Too hard. Let’s throw the rover in the gutter and say it’s in Nevada.
→ More replies (2)4
4
u/pinkleftsock 9h ago
I've never personally seen the rover on Mars. Now I've also never been there, but that doesn't change the fact that it's suspicious that no-one has seen it in person.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (13)3
u/Creative_Carob4922 11h ago
It is
3
u/DarkSpore117 11h ago
I agree with this guy. ‘Tis
6
u/Creative_Carob4922 11h ago
Like show us some weird shit on a planet that rains crystals or something. The always talk about it but we get Nevada with a Mexico filter
→ More replies (1)55
u/RhesusFactor 11h ago
Hijacking top comment.
These are not specially released images drip fed to the public. There is a firehose of images, raws, here https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ over a million of them.There are processed images, 360 deg pictures and videos, composites and mosaics. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/
So much stuff from Percy. its got a dozen cameras.
Curiosity is also sending images, its got a catalogue of 780,000 raw images. As is MRO and other platforms.
→ More replies (2)20
u/autumnlight2022 9h ago
You know what? It's fine. I didn't have anything better to do with my time than sit here and look at 5,786 pages of Mars pictures
7
→ More replies (1)5
22
9
u/CorrectMulberry994 13h ago
I’m pretty sure it’s that area there
6
u/ObligationNext2484 13h ago
How many areas where there before this specific area?
→ More replies (1)5
8
u/Cold-Practice3107 13h ago
Traveling the Mojave and makes you wish for a nuclear winter
→ More replies (1)3
u/Weak-Introduction124 7h ago
Is this a setup for a Fallout New Vegas response? Mr. House is that you?
6
u/King-James-3 13h ago
Makes me think that crazy good geoguesser would be able to find some obscure piece of desert if this wasn’t actually Mars.
4
u/Aggravating_Speed665 12h ago
Ugh, how many times do I have to tell people Mars = Nevada, yet they still keep trying to wow us with new footage like it's going to be different this time...
Wake me up when a rover stumbles into some alien tech left there by Arnie in the 80s.
→ More replies (106)11
268
u/glormond 13h ago
So Mars gets less and less red over time /s
135
20
u/Nastypilot 10h ago
I wonder if this might be early in the Martian day since the sky looks more blue than red
26
u/davyjones_prisnwalit 10h ago
I had read somewhere that they used a filter to make the colors more like Earth's so we could notice details easier, like differences in rock chemistry and soil types. Iirc
I think they refer to it as "white balancing."
→ More replies (2)15
→ More replies (2)10
381
u/panicradio316 13h ago
It just baffles me to see such a video ... of another planet ... millions of kilometers away in space ... billion years old ... and we flew a camera over there.
85
u/ptmtobi 11h ago
Yea those videos always make me notice how crazy it actually is to witness earth in the first place. I mean we are yet another random planet formed from a giant cloud, flying through the vastness of the universe. We are that one planet millions of kilometers away from another perspective, we just happened to witness this one first-hand, which is insane to me.
31
u/Thaetos 10h ago
Likely someone out there from another earth-like planet spotted our planet and is wondering what life would be like here. We are the aliens too, in the perspective of anyone else out there.
→ More replies (10)13
u/LopsidedAirlines 9h ago
Those videos make me realise how uninteresting and not shocking the rest of the near universe is contrary to how much we hyped it up all this time
18
u/Competitive-Pie-5302 8h ago
The more I see of the universe the more precious Earth seems to become.
3
u/sw04ca 5h ago
"He captured strange and distant worlds in greater detail than ever before. They were beautiful, magnificent... full of awe and wonder. But beneath their sublime surfaces... there was nothing. No love or hate. No light or dark. He could only see what was not there... and missed what was right in front of him."
9
u/MissSteak 8h ago
And how shocking our own planet actually is. What do you mean theres a lifeform that builds megacities?
→ More replies (1)3
u/crambeaux 7h ago
That the rules we have learned on earth apply throughout the universe is quite reassuring. It’s more that earth is exceptional, not that other planets are necessarily.
I still find it thrilling though. Thrilling banality.
11
u/_barat_ 10h ago
For me insane is that so many random things have had to happen to allow us to witness this image on the Reddit. Like there's no planet with inteligent life (as we understand it) within sane amount of light years round us and it happened for us.
The only thing that makes me sad is that probably I wont be living long enough to see a real "breakthrough" moment for our civilization like FTL or a confirmed inteligent life somewhere there.4
u/MissSteak 7h ago
Im kind of the mind that we will never be able to confirmed intelligent life somewhere that is not Earth. The probability is just so small and the universe is sooooooooo vast. Even in 10,000 years when we potentially reach FTL travel, Im not sure that we would be able to explore the whole of Milky Way, let alone leave it... the scope of it all is just so bonkers, which makes me appreciate the life we have here much more
→ More replies (3)9
u/stationery-bunny 10h ago
Earth is incredible as well! just so full of life. If I was on Mars I'd be so jealous of the people who get to be on Earth.
→ More replies (2)7
→ More replies (1)4
12
8
u/ScottOld 10h ago
And how clear it is, always funny when police put a blurry picture up of someone they want to talk to.. yet we got a clear image of mars
→ More replies (5)4
→ More replies (25)3
u/Tomazack 10h ago
We flew Matt Damon there as well but he's nowhere to be seen, what do we even make of this??
49
u/Parking-Ad-5360 13h ago
This shit just looks like Victorville
2
→ More replies (1)8
u/Five-Oh-Vicryl 12h ago
Best and most accurate comment. Way less meth on Mars though
→ More replies (1)
196
u/Beautiful_Thanks_433 14h ago
Who wants to live there?
254
u/SwimmerLeather5333 14h ago
Elon musk
126
80
u/CorrectMulberry994 13h ago
Could he go on and go now?
14
u/Curious-Attention774 12h ago
No life detected, just one billionaire-shaped pollutant.
→ More replies (2)13
5
4
→ More replies (11)3
28
u/Suitable_Wonder5256 13h ago
Arizonians?
22
u/SignoreBanana 13h ago
I live in Arizona and I don't even want to live in Arizona.
→ More replies (2)7
→ More replies (2)3
13
u/SlideN2MyBMs 13h ago
You'd be surprised how affordable housing is there
→ More replies (2)5
u/viktorrvaughnnn 13h ago
Zero neighbors, infinite parking, zero property tax
→ More replies (1)6
→ More replies (19)11
130
u/umpteenthian 14h ago
look at all those rocks that probably haven't moved in thousands of years
91
u/Betelgez 13h ago
You mean millions?
37
u/Darkk_Knight 13h ago
Even longer.
→ More replies (2)57
u/LiamIsMyNameOk 12h ago
Millioooooons
9
12
u/ArthurGallow 12h ago
Milioooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooons
8
→ More replies (2)3
14
u/uncomfortablesmile 11h ago
Technically if they haven't been moved in millions of years they also haven't been moved in thousands of years
→ More replies (3)3
u/Betelgez 11h ago
Yes, technically if they wrote rocks haven't been moved in over a second, that would also be true.
7
u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 11h ago
Nope. Mars gets huge sandstorms multiple times a decade. They have most assuredly moved thousands of times in the last thousand of years.
→ More replies (1)10
→ More replies (2)3
10
→ More replies (4)10
u/glormond 12h ago
Well, actually those smaller ones could have been moved by some heavy sand storms
3
70
u/ginamon 13h ago
I'm not sure why I expected it to look totally different, but I did. It looks like places on earth. We have Earth at home, and it has its own oxygen.
17
u/Thaetos 10h ago
It looks a lot like earth, because it probably once was.
Idk the full story but there’s a theory that Mars had oceans that dried up. I believe it had some kind of atmosphere too that prevented the water from escaping, but don’t quote me on that.
But yea it’s basically a dead version of our planet. Or what’s waiting for us.
13
u/GreasyChains 10h ago
"Mars had some kind of atmosphere too that prevented the water from escaping."
- Thaetos
→ More replies (5)11
u/NoodlesAreAwesome 10h ago
The core of Mars used to be liquid. When it cooled the magnetic field that protected it vastly away around 4 billion years ago.
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (7)17
131
u/elibutton 14h ago
Where’s Matt Damon?
60
u/Wonderful_Penalty387 13h ago
Shitting behind a rock
→ More replies (2)27
u/CorrectMulberry994 13h ago
And planting potatoes
→ More replies (6)5
u/poo_on_my_scarf 12h ago
He's saving time these days and just putting the potatoes straight up his arse
→ More replies (1)3
→ More replies (8)9
25
u/Leverkaas2516 14h ago edited 13h ago
Oh, man, that reminds me of when the Spirit rover started sending back high-resolution color images of the surface of Mars 20 years ago. It seems kinda tame now but back then it was awe-inspiring.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/695/
→ More replies (4)6
17
19
9
8
u/Zestyclose-Gold5114 13h ago
Yeah, might be getting higher definition images back, but sure ain't getting any more appealing. No bears or mosquitoes mind you
8
u/ColdboyCrypto 13h ago
"Welcome to your new home!"
1 week later: "So this is pretty much it, huh? I'm screwed aren't I?"
→ More replies (1)
45
u/Sad_Ad_2524 14h ago
Colonizing this makes absolutely no sense.
60
u/FederalLobster5665 13h ago
thats what they said before Vegas was built.
28
25
u/ripyurballsoff 13h ago
Maybe Mars will be ok after adding hookers and gambling?
14
→ More replies (1)5
u/MilesSebastian 13h ago
When the Mob figures out how to make a buck on Mars, up go the neon lights.
→ More replies (1)4
u/snek-jazz 10h ago
The terrain is the least of the issues. There's no oxygen and the average temperature on Mars is about -80 degrees Fahrenheit (-60 degrees Celsius).
7
u/Sad_Ad_2524 13h ago
Well you don't need to wear breathing apparatus to live in Vegas. Well, not unless you are in a smoking casino.
→ More replies (1)3
→ More replies (6)3
u/DueExample52 12h ago
So we only need a breathable atmoshpere, a water-ice covered mountain range nearby, and a full human civilisation in a nearby temperate climate supporting the infrastructure, food and water delivery. Then it’s ok we can build another Vegas on Mars.
3
u/Darkk_Knight 12h ago
Only good thing might be worth it on Mars would be the minerals to be mined and sent back to Earth. But it won't be any humans living there as everything will be automated. Why you think there is a rush in China to build smart robots?
→ More replies (8)3
u/inotocracy 11h ago
If you have humans on more than one planet you greatly increase the odds of a singular event not taking us out.
→ More replies (21)6
u/king_anon1492 13h ago
I mean terraforming isn’t determined impossible and there’s plenty of reason to establish a science outpost there like we do in the Arctic
→ More replies (7)
6
22
u/Savings-March-3016 13h ago
Mankind has achieved so much in the past 150 years. 15000 years ago we lived in caves. The sad part is, that we tend to destroy ourselves. The more powerful and accesable the technology becomes, the more likely it will happen. It had been close already several times. In the long run, we are as good as gone.
→ More replies (9)5
u/dsanft 11h ago
We tend to hate ourselves. Look at so much of online culture: hating on human beings, hating on children, hating on society and the general public. These spaces aren't healthy.
→ More replies (1)3
u/The_Ultimate_Badass 7h ago
Double edged sword of anonymity. In a social group, people balance feedback delivery with how they believe it will effect their relationship. Strangers just let you know how they felt.
It's why feedback from strangers is so much more valuable than feedback from people who care about you and don't want to hurt your feelings. People are also free to call out what they see as bullshit. This can be a force for good, but it also allows bad actors to infiltrate and manipulate people who will serve up mountains of cognitive dissonance to support bad faith arguments for their chosen prejudice.
4
5
u/Affectionate_Guest55 13h ago
They could’ve picked a more interesting looking planet to land on
→ More replies (2)
6
5
4
4
u/PenguinsRevenge82 12h ago
I understand the martian day is half an hour longer there than on Earth. How would timekeeping work if humans did live there? Would we freeze the clock at midnight for half an hour? So you'd have 'midnight plus 15 minutes' which would be different from 1215. Or some other way?
→ More replies (7)4
u/JackasaurusChance 11h ago
You'd just switch to 'military time'. So, if a Martian day is 24 hours and 27 minutes time would go 24:25-24:26-00:00-00:01.
Mars would need its own calendar, and I'm sure someone already made one.
→ More replies (4)
5
u/SuccessArtistic7641 8h ago
Ivanaka look, new resort potential. Bring all the family with you, infact bring all settlers too!
→ More replies (1)
17
u/TranscendentaLobo 14h ago
Here come the “loOks LiKe ArZoNa!” Comments. 🤪
→ More replies (1)7
u/Suitable_Wonder5256 13h ago
Then, some people are like: who would want to live on that kind of crap
Arizonians: ...
16
3
5
u/Common_Commercial775 13h ago
So they can use this type of clear camera on a different planet but getting clear images of UFOs on planet earth is nearly impossible
→ More replies (4)5
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/throwaway4231throw 13h ago
Too bad there’s no oil there. We would had colonies there last century.
→ More replies (1)
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
•
u/AutoModerator 14h ago
Hello u/SwimmerLeather5333! Please review the sub rules if you haven't already. (This is an automatic reminder message left on all new posts)
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.