Posted on 05/16/2015 5:45:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE image colors, to the human eye the area would probably look grey or a little reddish. But human eyes have not gazed across this terrain, unless you count the eyes of NASA astronauts in the scifi novel The Martian by Andy Weir. The novel chronicles the adventures of Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded at the fictional Mars mission Ares 3 landing site corresponding to the coordinates of this cropped HiRISE frame. For scale Watney's 6-meter-diameter habitat at the site would be about 1/10th the diameter of the large crater. Of course, the Ares 3 landing coordinates are only about 800 kilometers north of the (real life) Carl Sagan Memorial Station, the 1997 Pathfinder landing site.
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[Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA]
“the Martian” is an awesome read. highest reccomentdaiton:
That was a good sci fi read. ...and now it has been made into a movie!
Looks cold.
I like blue. It’s my favorite color!
I didn’t know that there was a Carl Sagan memorial on Mars.
Not a big fan of his Agenda 21 and other leftist leanings.
Regardless, that is a beautiful, almost man-made looking
picture.
:’)
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