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More than just large, it's gaseous and thus unrelatable. People see grainy images of some dark object breaking up over Jupiter, but they can't wrap their head a
by rory096 14y ago
More than just large, it's gaseous and thus unrelatable. People see grainy images of some dark object breaking up over Jupiter, but they can't wrap their head around what that is- what does an impact on a gaseous planet even look like? Mars, on the other hand, is much more visceral to people. We have pictures from the ground- and it looks like [places on] Earth.