The Astronomy Thread

[Mudcat]

Can you hear me Major Tom?

 

[Matty]

Not technically astronomy, but man.

So perfect it looks like bad CGI.

 

[mrquincy]

NASA releases a shit ton of images from Apollo mission.



https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/page1

 

[Matty]

Closest shots ever of Jupiter's Great Red Spot: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?phases[]=PERIJOVE+7

 

[Mudcat]

It's a helluva spot, I tell you wut.

 

[Matty]

63 Earths can fit inside Uranus.

64 if you relax.

 

[Mudcat]

Oh dear.

 

[max headroom]

Geeze!

 

[Mudcat]

Venus in the morning sky these days AMIRITE?

 

[Boner_18]

Pointed it out to daughter and wife yesterday on our way to daycare. Its bright.

 

[Matty]

It's a freakin' ice crater on Mars y'alls.

https://mashable.com/article/mars-i...a/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#PQzOEGa4tsq0

 

[max headroom]

How bout that shit?

 

[Boner_18]

Yeah. We close, it's amazing. Men will walk there before we die.

 

[Boner_18]

I mean, there's frozen water on the moon. H2o and energy is really all that's required. And we can bring LOTS of energy (nuclear reactors are pretty tiny now). A great time to be alive boys.

 

[Matty]

What are the odds we're going to find freaky fossils buried under Martian soil?!?

 

[Tron]

What are the odds we're going to find freaky fossils buried under Martian soil?!?

15/1

 

[roguejuror]

It's a freakin' ice crater on Mars y'alls.

whoah

 

[Boner_18]

If you define "freaky" as any fossil on Mars, I'd say closer to 100%. In not talking about even microbes, but even smaller - bacterial perhaps. We know there has been liquid water on the planet. Look at the crazy shit we've found on our own planet where we previously thought life couldn't exist. Specifically the bacterial and microbial life in completely anaerobic but aquatic systems around the thermal vents.