r/interesting • u/SwimmerLeather5333 • 15h 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.

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u/CorrectMulberry994 14h ago

About….50?

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u/vna4ever 13h ago

I see what you did there, fucking smooth

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u/SuDragon2k3 13h ago

But there isn't. Out in the desert there is the atomic test area. It's subdivided into different sized areas, depending on what they planned to blow up.

At the end of WW2 the Government wanted somewhere to test aircraft in development that wasn't in Los Angeles. So they picked an area next to one of the test sites, but outside the bomb range for obvious reasons.

This was next to area 15 on the range, so they reversed thee numbers to make Area 51.