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NASA rover captures stunning blue sunset on Mars, tweets ‘let us go you and I’
- xenophonf 12y agoHere's announcement, straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4581 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4581 That's the nice thing about the Internet. You can skip the color commentary (or in this case, content scraped shamelessly from JPL's web site) and go directly to the source. And just to save you all another click, here's the high-resolution imagery in addition to several ready-to-replace-your-existing-desktop-background formats: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19400 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19400
- classicsnoot 12y agoReminds me of a moment in Blue Mars when two of the First Hundred are watching the sun set out in the open years after the terraforming efforts have begun, and for just a moment the iron ochre tinged sky bleeds through into blue, a blue so familiar and surreal, that Maya grabs Saxifrage's arm, nails digging deep into aged skin, and points at something they had left far behind on a wet, green planet trapped in the darkening sky.