Have You Ever Seen Another Moon in an Alien Sky? (Daily Kos)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/30/1138066/-Have-you-ever-seen-another-moon-in-an-alien-sky

SUN SEP 30, 2012 AT 05:45 AM EDT

Have you ever seen another moon in an alien sky?

by Troubadour

The Curiosity rover turned its cameras upward for a first-ever clear, daylight color photograph of Phobos over Mars.




Note: The black dot to the left of Phobos is just a bad pixel. The color of the overall image is characteristic of the Martian sky with a low dust load - under totally clear conditions, the sky is slate-gray at the zenith due to the thinness of the atmosphere and pales to a somewhat brighter shade closer to the horizon. Blown up:



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[Kindly Refrain]

1. That is kick ass!

I wish our moon looked like a potato.

[CrispyQ]

2. I love Curiosity. Almost as much as Hubble.

k&r

[kentauros]

3. Then you're going to love the 6.5-meter James Webb Space Telescope

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

[CrispyQ]

4. Oh yes, I feel the love already!

Can't wait to see the Deep Field through this one's eyes!

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. <----- sensor envy

[nolabear]

5. I'm having an absolute geekgasm! WOW.

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!!

[JDPriestly]

7. We have a man on our moon. Looks like they do too.

Do all moons have a man on them?

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears in rain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_soliloquy

[porphyrian]

9. Replicant. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Neil Armstrong was famous for telling unfunny jokes about the moon,...

.....and then ending them with, "I guess you had to be there."

[derby378]

11. Bad, naughty pixel!

But a very cool picture nonetheless.