r/nextfuckinglevel • u/InsaneMocktail • 11h ago
NASA released the clearest images of Mars
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u/FancyThing8889 10h ago
Just twenty minutes outside Vegas
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u/Timely-Bluejay-4167 6h ago
“Honey why are you spending all that money on those rockets when we have desert at home?”
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u/Falconni 10h ago
Looks actually the same like our deserts and wastelands.
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u/toothpicks-galore 9h ago
yeah almost a little too randomly strewn about. like its trying to insist on its own authenticity. Im calling shenanigans, shenanigans on the whole damn thing til we get answers!
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u/boppy28 8h ago
I swear to God, I'll pistol-whip the next guy who says Shenanigans.
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u/creaturefeature16 8h ago
Hey Farva, what's that restaurant you like, with all the goofy shit on the walls?
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u/Pair-o-ducks_Legend 7h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/6WyntgkBJSSYw
Does it come with a proportional size of hot chocolatte?
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u/bralma6 8h ago
As a Las Vegas resident, all I could think was “This looks like the drive to Pahrump or California.”
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u/BadPunsIsHowEyeRoll 8h ago
It looks identical to wet beach sand to me, even though I'm pretty sure thats just how dark the sand is. Crazy cool
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u/uno_novaterra 8h ago
Yeah, I was thinking the big island of Hawaii looks more alien than actual Mars
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u/Flashignite2 10h ago
Can we all agree what a marvel this is? Looking at a high definition photo of an another planet through our phones/computers. Just imagine that 100 years ago, we had fairly recently began taking to the skies. What a time to be alive in.
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 7h ago
Yeah, I mean everyone’s joking in the comments but it really is pretty amazing.
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u/BarryMcKockinner 6h ago
That's cause reddit fucking sucks now. We used to have cool input from astronomers upvoted the the top of the comments section. Now, it's just the same old regurgitated slop.
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u/ezalbrozar 5h ago
Wish there was an AI filter that would block low effort comments. A good use for AI imo.
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u/okgesture 5h ago
My first thought was it’s crazy how ‘real’ it looks, weirdly. An entirely different planet viewed like it’s just another county in high definition
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u/contactcreated 6h ago
It is wild. I think there are a few photos from the surface of Venus and Titan, but they’re quite low quality. Would love to see more high quality images.
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u/gangreen424 3h ago
Fucking outstanding.
I feel like we've lost a lot of wonder and amazement at the things we're able to achieve through science and perserverence.
We sent robots to another planet, and they are sending back high definition photos and video. WE HAVE COLONIZED MARS WITH OUR ROBOTS. It's amazing!
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u/badken 8h ago
It'd be more of a marvel if it wasn't cropped into a phone-sized vertical video. Hey OP, it'd be nice to have a NASA source link.
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u/Chadbutler11c 11h ago
Imagine how many warehouses and data centers we could build there!
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u/Dukkiegamer 10h ago
Yes! Except they need water or something else to cool them down.
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u/Particular-Sport-627 10h ago
average temp on mars is -80 fahrenheit, perfect place for them data centers
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u/ElijahQuoro 9h ago edited 5h ago
It’s even colder in outer space. Mars atmosphere is very sparse (0.6% of Earth pressure on ground level) so you can’t use its atmosphere effectively for cooling purposes.
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u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES 9h ago
I know far too much about Mars because Andy Weir is a nerd that writes good books
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u/LevelZeroDM 9h ago
There's even less atmosphere in outer space.
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u/XavierScorpionIkari 8h ago
That’s why a restaurant on the Moon is a terrible idea. While the view is amazing, the atmosphere is nonexistent.
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u/ElijahQuoro 5h ago
Exactly. The sentence was meant to highlight that there are places with lower temperature, it doesn’t make them a good choice.
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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 8h ago
You can however use the frozen CO2 at the poles. Sealing the center is a prerequisite anyways and all you need is a steady supply of crushed dry ice, you could run it for centuries without issue.
Space isn't actually that cold, because radiating heat is very hard. The only reason building on mars would actually be hard it because it's far away.
Data centers are fine if we just *force them to be self-sufficient. Their own carbon-neutral power and own internal refrigerants, not (initially) cheap fossil fuels and water cooling.
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u/Keibun1 6h ago
Outer space can be either hot or cold depending on where you are.
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u/ElijahQuoro 5h ago
Yes. But the temperature of the space vacuum is very low. Technically, considering you are in an insulated space suit, everywhere in the outer space will be very hot.
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u/dern_the_hermit 3h ago
Funny things happen with extreme temperatures and extremely low (ie- vacuum) pressures. You can have gasses and plasmas that are thousands of degrees but they're so thin that it functionally comes out as barely any energy at all.
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u/Malleus--Maleficarum 7h ago
The problem with vacuum of space and close to vacuum Mars' atmosphere is that they are better at insulating rather than being a heat sink, i.e. to exchange heat you need a medium such as water.
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u/Working_Traffic_6361 10h ago
I'm sure they'd find a way to use human blood
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u/Ok-Personality-6630 10h ago
Where do you think the water all went? The datacenters are already there!
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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 10h ago
Well, Musk thinks they cool well in a hard vacuum in space.
So they must cool 10x better on Mars. And ping times are also irrelevant after enough drugs...
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u/Butthole_seizure 2h ago
Wouldn’t it be a better idea to build data centers on Earth so the machines have better access to power and water and send the humans to Mars to die in experimental slave colonies?
- Peter Thiel probably
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u/Mother-Win-3557 10h ago
Ideal place for musk to move to asap
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u/rarecuts 10h ago
Poor Mars
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u/Small-Answer4946 7h ago
There's only robots to fuck over there. Mars is safe.
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u/MobileOk9860 7h ago
Mars is the only planet we know of in the entire Universe entirely populated by robots from another planet.
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u/trogdor-burninates 6h ago
Well we did send a robot to Venus which landed and probably melted within a few hours.
I would argue on technicality that Mars isn't the only planet entirely populated by robots from another planet.
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u/Klash_kop 8h ago
I fail to understand why he's obsessed with the idea of inhabiting a barren planet and throwing billions of dollars at it, instead of using his money to preserve this planet where there's people, trees and water already.
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u/KayJay282 7h ago
It's a scam to get space agencies / governments paying for technology made under his companies.
Most of his recent businesses is really just him getting money out of governments.
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u/Used-Barnacle-9783 7h ago
For the same reason he renamed it X and pays people to play video games for him. He thinks that's what a cool genius billionaire should look like.
He's larping
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u/No_Butterscotch_507 6h ago
His business model is “Look like the guy who has next-level ideas.”
That’s it. That’s how he makes money.
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u/BBAALLII 8h ago
- The clearest images of mars
- Proceeds to post a mid resolution video
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u/TheHoratioHufnagel 5h ago
Cropped a couple times with random socials blanked out, of images release 5 years ago with a title that implies they just released. Meanwhile 1000s actual high res photos are available on Nasa's websie.
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u/welcomefinside 10h ago
Who still thinks it's a good idea to restart civilization on Mars?
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u/Otherwise-Remove4681 9h ago
It’s not about restaring a civilization. It’s is going to be either a playground for the rich or a work camp for the poor to enrich the rich.
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u/Horror-Limit-6670 6h ago
Why are these space bot posts always “clearest” or “highest resolution ever”?
Same camera that’s been there for years.
Mastcam images are released automatically.
There are hundreds of thousands of them.
There are higher resolution cameras on the surface of Mars than this.
Every thread ever about Mars images has the same comments.
Looks like X.
Send blah there.
You people are basic as shit.
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u/IamREBELoe 8h ago
So how do images get clearer and better all the time when we ain't sending new cameras and tech there?
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u/Jolly_Cantaloupe_187 8h ago
"Clearest images", then proceeds to release a video.
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u/Reptilian_American06 10h ago
Looks like the Israel got there first :)
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u/Paghk_the_Stupendous 6h ago
Look, you don't need to make every topic a protest piece about Israel. All that does is make everything a wasteland. Oh wait.
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u/vreausaprogramez 11h ago
Ah, a Starbucks is missing from here.
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u/SoloToker117 10h ago
This actually makes me sad that no one just thought this was cool. Instead its all dumb jokes and cynicism.
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u/Ploddy 10h ago
Stoopid question. All these shots look washed out. Is this what it really looks like, or is it the result of the image quality? I dunno, I imagined the red planet to be more…
…you know…
red.
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u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt 9h ago
Red light is better at penetrating clouds/atmospheres, so the light that doesnt escape is brighter, and bounces around the atmosphere more.
I think thats why its not as red up close.
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u/RealRedditPerson 11h ago
Where is Optimus
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u/Dukkiegamer 10h ago
In disguise obviously. He's the rock at 0:14 in the top left.
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u/DingoCC 10h ago
The cam has not been upgraded. It's always been that clear. Shit heading.
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u/Murky_Historian8675 10h ago
Fukin shit. If we ever colonate on that planet, it's basically Tattooine
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u/Blue_Moon_Lake 7h ago
We won't.
It has barely any atmosphere, which is made almost entirely of CO2 and not N2.
It doesn't have the gravitational pull to hold an atmosphere.
It doesn't have a magnetic field to protect its atmosphere from solar winds blowing what's left of the atmosphere away.
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u/juanano2 10h ago
Jeez it looks exactly as my workplace as I'm looking out the window, I've lived in Mars my whole life.
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u/LilRed2023 8h ago
This is totally fake this is actually on Devon island on earth. The last time they showed the rover live there was a fly on it lmao. So yep space is fake. They been trying to break the firmament since 1969 also all satellites are sent up on balloons filled full of helium and sent from Antarctica. All the videos you see of space are CGI and models. If you use google maps you can find the studio of the international space station in Texas. And can go right inside the building and see it all. NASA is the biggest buyer of helium yearly that’s how they keep their solar panel powered satellites in the air for so long. Well now ya know the truth and that you been lied to for decades I divest
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u/hawkinsst7 1h ago
"clearest images ever"
Posts a screen cap of another app panning a low res video.
Gets 15k up votes
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u/Comprehensive-Shoe11 11h ago
Nice pile of sand and rocks