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'Perseverance estrena ZOOM en marte MastCam Full HD', awesome Mars panoramas (Original Post) Shanti Shanti Shanti Mar 2021 OP
So Earth and Mars are it as far as rocky planets with possibllities go? brush Mar 2021 #1
Kept expecting to see cowboys and Indians coming over the ridge Walleye Mar 2021 #4
Heehee. Right? brush Mar 2021 #5
I agree, let's go drilling for subsurface oceans on moons! Head for the water, maybe Ceres 1st? Shanti Shanti Shanti Mar 2021 #6
Very cool! Nevilledog Mar 2021 #2
Wow! Walleye Mar 2021 #3

brush

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1. So Earth and Mars are it as far as rocky planets with possibllities go?
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 03:36 PM
Mar 2021

Last edited Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:54 PM - Edit history (1)

That panorama looks similar to shots I've seen of barren, high deserts here on Earth, and no one knows what's under Venus' thick clouds and Mercury is much too hot.

Maybe we should try one of the moons of the gas giant planets.

 

Shanti Shanti Shanti

(12,047 posts)
6. I agree, let's go drilling for subsurface oceans on moons! Head for the water, maybe Ceres 1st?
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:03 PM
Mar 2021

Our robots do a fine job with taking pics of rocks and dirt, though I too am keeping an eye out for T-Rex like skeleton fossils poking out of those vistas, lol, u never know...

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