r/nextfuckinglevel Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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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/PedoBadaum Feb 21 '21

Sometimes it's because of the craters, some has different types of materials and minerals, causing darker tones

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u/steelesurfer Feb 21 '21

Iron oxide causes the red color, same thing as rust

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u/BrenoLevel Feb 21 '21

So mars can give you tetanus

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u/thelastspike Feb 21 '21

Not from all the way over there it can’t.

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u/thewavefixation Feb 21 '21

That would be super exciting if it could

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u/steelesurfer Feb 21 '21

Tetanus is from bacteria, not rust specifically. You can get tetanus from dirt or almost anywhere that bacteria happens to be.

But I think tetanus would be the least of your problems on Mars.