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- Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:20 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Life on Mars
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9669
Re: Life on Mars
There is the possibility of to find salt liquid water on Mars. It can to have elemental life on Mars. But, you need to find another important point for the life: the carbon element Carbon element------------ life Not element carbon ------ not life Silicon Life, and other life forms. http://www.airs...
- Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:25 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1107554
Re: Weather!
You should capture it, bottle it, and sell it to Californiageckzilla wrote:Looks like I'm in for a bit of rain.
- Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Eclipsed in Southern Skies (2015 Oct 01)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5516
Re: APOD: Eclipsed in Southern Skies (2015 Oct 01)
And outside the Sphere of Influenceneufer wrote:Only when projected onto a planeThePiper wrote:
Images always lie.
- Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:10 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent on... (2015 Sep 30)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8737
Re: APOD: Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent on... (2015 Sep 3
Yes, by a scale of 1.5. It would be nice to have roll overs on these displaying an actual vertical height image as well as the exaggerated height images.hoohaw wrote:Is the vertical scale in the photo exaggerated?
- Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent on... (2015 Sep 30)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8737
Re: APOD: Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent on... (2015 Sep 3
It looks to me like it could also be rocks crumbling and rolling down the side disturbing lighter colored dust on the surface. Since it is seasonal, perhaps the temperature change causes the rock to expand and contract which makes them crumble. Just a thought. To be clear, the hypothesis that this ...
- Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and... (2015 Sep 29)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 10807
Re: APOD: Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and... (2015 Sep 29)
V It is a pain that in a place like this under the name NASA are selected absolutely false images designed with the sole intention of using the impact of lying to get attention of impressionable unwary. Here is an example of a REAL image obtained in the minute of totality from 140 miles N-NW of Ibiz...
- Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:28 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Life on Mars
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9669
Re: Life on Mars
If there is life on Mars, and there could be
,
and if it is microbial and surviving in underground brine deposits,
then the seasonal crater wall streaks that indicate this brine eruption/seepage
would be the best place to search for residual life.
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
and if it is microbial and surviving in underground brine deposits,
then the seasonal crater wall streaks that indicate this brine eruption/seepage
would be the best place to search for residual life.
- Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: LDN 988 and Friends (2015 Sep 24)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2592
Re: APOD: LDN 988 and Friends (2015 Sep 24)
What a nice image! :D I, of course, love the subtle blue reflection nebulosity in the image, caused by tiny dust particles scattering light, preferably blue light, in our direction. But at lower right there are two small orange patterns, showing the reverse side of dust: it preferentially scatters ...
- Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5905
Re: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
These shadows look all wrong. It looks like the sun farther right and behind the camera not right in front. The shadows are in deed pointing to the left of the image indicating that the sun is off to the right at the time the image was taken. This is likely because the sun Was off to the right at t...
- Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5905
Re: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
Just keeping the fries all the way home can be toughRon-Astro Pharmacist wrote:I don't suppose that's the most southern set of McArches is it? Leave it to a "Ronald" to notice them. Keeping the fries hot all the way home is tough enough here.
C'est tout ce que j'aime.
- Wed Sep 23, 2015 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5905
Re: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
What causes the Red Fire patches to the left of the Analemma?
It looks like LMC and SMC or Red Aurorae but ???
It looks like LMC and SMC or Red Aurorae but ???
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn's... (2015 Sep 20)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2411
Re: APOD: Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn's... (2015 Sep 20
Who ever would have imagined great balls of water flying throughout space? Star Trek Voyager Episode "30 Days" Aired in 1998 Tom Paris spends 30 days in the Brig and, during a flashback episode, recounts the events leading to his incarceration. This episode features an Ocean Planet where ...
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Plutonian Landscape (2015 Sep 18)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5835
Re: APOD: A Plutonian Landscape (2015 Sep 18)
The upper left and right of the picture makes it appear that the camera is actually within the atmosphere of the planet. How can those arcs of diffuse light be that high on the photo? Assuming that the craft is not within the atmosphere, what has caused this illusion? The atmosphere is in the image...
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Plutonian Landscape (2015 Sep 18)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5835
Re: APOD: A Plutonian Landscape (2015 Sep 18)
Can I presume the semi-circular streaks more or less parallel to the horizon are star trails? Or is the atmosphere of Pluto *VASTLY* more complicated than we ever imagined? Those are not star trails, but are, in fact, layers of atmosphere. While no star trails are visible in the APOD version, there...
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:20 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Plutonian Landscape (2015 Sep 18)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5835
Re: APOD: A Plutonian Landscape (2015 Sep 18)
At that low angle, those mountains strongly resembles busted and stacked Arctic pack ice, oh...wait a minute...it is ice
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat (2015 Sep 11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4797
Re: APOD: A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat (2015 Sep 11)
Batman and Aquaman...The new Dynamic Duo
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:12 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
- Replies: 453
- Views: 119122
Re: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
What did the Prostate say to the Testicle?
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:32 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Dawn: Journey to the Asteroid Belt
- Replies: 181
- Views: 306940
Re: Dawn: Journey to the Asteroid Belt
There is a definite change in Brightness or reflectiveness of the area at 2 O'clock In This image http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/pia19889.jpg VS This Image http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/mediumsize/PIA19890_ip.jpg Or http://photo...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide (2015 Sep 09)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2622
Re: APOD: NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide (2015 Sep 09)
I too noticed that the "Shells" extend well beyond the image. A deeper image of a larger area might show the Shells extending almost twice as far as indicated in this image
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Nuts about spiders?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 178011
- Wed Sep 02, 2015 1:30 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Flare and the Galaxy (2015 Sep 02)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6458
Re: APOD: The Flare and the Galaxy (2015 Sep 02)
Caught one of these once, later in the evening at around 9:30 while taking out the trash, I looked up and noticed the telltale glow but the flare was glowing in a most prominent red hue, most probably from the reflected sunset color skimming off the horizon (from the satellites perspective)
- Tue Sep 01, 2015 1:01 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pluto in Enhanced Color (2015 Aug 31)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5207
Re: APOD: Pluto in Enhanced Color (2015 Aug 31)
Perhaps Minorroids or Asterettes or Asteressimals
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 7:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Little Planet Curiosity (2015 Aug 22)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3040
Re: APOD: Little Planet Curiosity (2015 Aug 22)
The length of the day on Mars is 24h-40m and is referred to as a Sol. Any given Mars Sol will always occur across 2 Earth days. Either date could be correct so granted the image could only have been taken on a single Mars day, SOL 1065 does correspond to Aug 4-5 2015. So, unless the series of images...
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 6:16 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images (2015 Aug 23)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3407
Re: APOD: Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images (2015 Aug 23)
I see what appears to be the original galaxy directly in the center of the galaxy mass
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What did you see on the web today?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 120593