European Space Agency just released this image.
51 miles across, 1 mile deep.
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Water Ice on Mars
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Water Ice on Mars
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Re: Water Ice on Mars
That's incredible.
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Re: Water Ice on Mars
i'll post this in this thread because your picture is so good.
Snowman-like Photo of Ultima Thule Sent Home by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft
At a Wednesday news conference, scientists announced some results from the flyby of the most distant object ever visited.
Jan. 2, 2019
LAUREL, Md. — Ultima Thule, an icy world 4 billion miles from the sun, looks like a big snowman.
At a news conference on Wednesday, scientists working with NASA’s New Horizons mission released several images that the spacecraft took as it flew by on Tuesday, New Year’s Day.
Planetary scientists have never before seen a close-up of a body like Ultima Thule. It is likely a fragment that coalesced more than 4.5 billion years ago and which has remained in the deep freeze of the solar system’s Kuiper belt ever since.
If it is indeed a pristine planetesimal, a building block of the planets, studying it will offer clues to how Earth and its neighbors formed.
On Tuesday, scientists released a blurry picture of this small world, also known by its official designation 2014 MU69, taken before the flyby from a distance of half a million miles. It sort of looked like a fuzzy bowling pin then.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/scie ... izons.html
Snowman-like Photo of Ultima Thule Sent Home by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft
At a Wednesday news conference, scientists announced some results from the flyby of the most distant object ever visited.
Jan. 2, 2019
LAUREL, Md. — Ultima Thule, an icy world 4 billion miles from the sun, looks like a big snowman.
At a news conference on Wednesday, scientists working with NASA’s New Horizons mission released several images that the spacecraft took as it flew by on Tuesday, New Year’s Day.
Planetary scientists have never before seen a close-up of a body like Ultima Thule. It is likely a fragment that coalesced more than 4.5 billion years ago and which has remained in the deep freeze of the solar system’s Kuiper belt ever since.
If it is indeed a pristine planetesimal, a building block of the planets, studying it will offer clues to how Earth and its neighbors formed.
On Tuesday, scientists released a blurry picture of this small world, also known by its official designation 2014 MU69, taken before the flyby from a distance of half a million miles. It sort of looked like a fuzzy bowling pin then.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/scie ... izons.html
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Re: Water Ice on Mars
Looks like a meteor hit, left a big hole and the water below the crater came up and froze over how many years? Just like our 10,000 lakes with 3 fish but no fish on Mars.
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- Beef Supreme
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Re: Water Ice on Mars
Time for some Martian pond hockey!!!
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Re: Water Ice on Mars
Hell Yeah!
Winter Classic? On Mars? Just need to find two teams that won't mind the four year round trip.
Talk about bus legs...
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