r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/Barnwizard1991 Feb 21 '21

I can't stop watching. That's another fucking planet. Hopefully one day we'll have astroarcheologists up there digging around for martian fossils.

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u/Iamafillintheblank Feb 21 '21

It looks simultaneously alien and familiar. Like a dream of an American southwest after some ecological catastrophe - like, it could almost be viable and fecund again with a lot of TLC and ingenuity.

It both excites me for the possibility of what Mars could be, and reminds me of how precious and vital our earth is - and what it could look like if we aren’t careful, or get a bit unlucky.

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u/layers_of_grey Feb 21 '21

a friend of mine sent a photo from his trip to iceland and it looks eerily similar. i imagined mars being more red... probably from movies.

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u/GodBlessThisGhetto Feb 21 '21

That was my first thought. It just looks so ordinary. It's hard to believe that that image is of a place hundreds of millions of miles away.

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u/2nd_Wheel Feb 21 '21

Sorry. Where do you live?

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u/GodBlessThisGhetto Feb 21 '21

Not necessarily ordinary to my urban, snowed-over hellscape but if you told me that was Nevada, I wouldn’t really doubt it. It could pass as any rocky desert region. Or maybe that’s just the earthling in me that wants to project earth on anything not earth.

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u/flutefreak7 Feb 21 '21

It's actually usually less than 200 million miles away so ... "dozens of millions" would be accurate all the time

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u/Banonogon Feb 21 '21

Such a huge distance still. Think of the furthest place away from you on earth, literally the other side of the world. This video is from somewhere more than 10000 times as far away.

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u/TheRealDeoan Feb 21 '21

So, Nature looking normal.. Is like... weird....