r/BeAmazed • u/coolhunt12 • Mar 01 '25
Place Crystal clear picture of Mars 140 million miles away.
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u/Electronic_Town_7255 Mar 01 '25
Anyone waiting for a sandworm to show up
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u/MiloPudding Mar 01 '25
I was looking for some living thing
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u/Naked-Jedi Mar 02 '25
I'm surprised there wasn't a little golden droid with a silver leg shuffling along. Or a bunch of little guys with glowing eyes wearing brown bathrobes chasing him down.
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u/oldcreaker Mar 02 '25
Or someone hauling a huge hair dryer.
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u/Gooncookies Mar 02 '25
I was looking for a mosquito because if anyone could colonize Mars it’s those mfrs
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u/Beezzlleebbuubb Mar 02 '25
Little guy popping his head out from behind a rock.
That would be awesome. And if I wasn’t so lazy, I’d prompt it into existence.
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u/Wonderful_Sound1768 Mar 02 '25
Sometimes, it’s not just about finding life, but understanding its essence.
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u/aphilosopherofsex Mar 02 '25
That’s not the right one.
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u/Banana-Rockets Mar 02 '25
So, THAT'S how you comb the desert...I was always wondering how those lines get in the sand....lol
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u/_g550_ Mar 01 '25
Show it to the guy who tells the coordinates by the image of terrain.
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u/V2ex0 Mar 02 '25
Rainbolt!
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u/ploxasaurus Mar 02 '25
Finally something he'll get wrong
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u/nagasgura Mar 02 '25
He actually did learn the moon a while back. He has some videos where he can identify the location on the moon from satellite imagery, though more zoomed out than on earth obviously.
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u/brucewaynewayne Mar 01 '25
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u/scumbot Mar 02 '25
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u/SubstantialHouse8013 Mar 02 '25
This in IMAX was one of the coolest theatrical experiences of my life.
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u/kgottshall Mar 01 '25
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u/Romanopapa Mar 02 '25
I always dreamt to be the scientist who happens to be looking at that video and notice a unmistakeable critter just running along the dunes and unto the camera.
Just imagine the fanfare that would create!
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u/deadasdollseyes Mar 02 '25
Surely there's an agi for that.
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u/fakeemailman Mar 02 '25
Ah yes, I’ve definitely got the singularity lying around in a drawer somewhere here.
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u/Stanlez Mar 02 '25
I have no sense of scale for this, so it just looks bizzare.
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u/Crumfighter Mar 02 '25
Yeah agree! The most confusing part is not knowing how big everything is there, just no sense of scale or anything to reference.
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u/robotatomica Mar 02 '25
I came to comment this exact thing. I see them as relatively shallow dunes, but there’s every possibility they are mountainous and towering!
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u/33ITM420 Mar 01 '25
I have the same microphone they’re using on that rover
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u/gn0xious Mar 02 '25
You should get out and walk a bit if you’re breathing that heavy at your desk.
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u/uniquly-unknowen Mar 02 '25
Earth 2035
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u/SluttyNerevar Mar 02 '25
Yeah, we got Arakis in our future without the benefit of sandworm-transit or space-cocaine. Bummer.
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u/starethruyou Mar 01 '25
Source? Taken from where? With what? Is it stitched together or a single frame? Reddit is so dumb now.
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u/X_MarxTheSpot Mar 02 '25
The visuals were captured by the Curiosity rover, while the wind sounds were recorded by Perseverance.
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u/ThegreatandpowerfulR Mar 02 '25
I was going to be annoyed at the unnecessary use of foley sound effects but if it's from perseverance then it's pretty cool
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u/ElektroThrow Mar 02 '25
I clicked into the thread knowing the sound was real but expecting an angry Redditor complaining about how they added fake sounds. This will do!
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u/Cuck_Boy Mar 02 '25
Idk why it never occurred to me but if you were standing on mars you would experience a slight breeze. Thats so weird to think about
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u/Double-Regular31 Mar 02 '25
The wind can blow 60 mph on Mars, but the atmosphere is so thin it would not feel like it at all. You'd probably think it was a very light breeze.
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u/FngrsToesNythingGoes Mar 02 '25
Agreed. I have to scroll so far down to get a serious reply these days smh
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u/DaKronkK Mar 02 '25
Everyone has to be facicious. Everyone is a comedian. Or it's no one has curiosity or enough skepticism to question the things they see.
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u/UnamusedAF Mar 02 '25
Everyone wants to post the witty comment that gets 1k upvotes and it always goes to the guy with the most unoriginal and dry “joke”.
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u/cobo6 Mar 02 '25
If that's Mars, just imagine what they can do on Earth from the satellites looking above
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u/nbroken Mar 02 '25
Think about this the next time you want to post a deep fried image on reddit. This picture is from mars, you can find a version of your meme with more than 10 pixels.
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u/raymate Mar 01 '25
And we can’t get a decent picture of any high street store robbery. Or any getaway car from numerous hit and runs.
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u/Organized_Riot Mar 01 '25
I mean this particular picture probably cost a few billion to get so that might have something to do with it
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u/DrDontBanMeAgainPlz Mar 01 '25
We can. People are just too cheap to get the right equipment
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u/Kwumpo Mar 02 '25
You say this, but you're probably visible on HD camera for a majority of the time you're in public. There is a camera recording pretty much every intersection in most big cities, like 50% of people have a doorbell cam, dash cams, etc.
That's not even getting into 3rd party data companies that have cams setup all over to log license plates. I guarantee some random company knows your frequent trips, when you make them, and has footage of you in key spots and they then sell that data for advertisers.
And that's not even getting into the fact that if you have your phone on you at all, your activity is known.
If you commit a crime, I guarantee there is footage of you either committing it, or at least that places you in the area at the time. The problem is finding and accessing the footage.
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u/ImmoralJester54 Mar 02 '25
Probably cause they put up bare minimum security and cheap super compression memory
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u/penguincheerleader Mar 02 '25
Not going to feel bad that NASA rovers have better cameras than most bodegas.
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u/RevenantExiled Mar 01 '25
And even they turn the 32 pixels of robber into a blur on the news cause poor robber, we should protect them
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u/bong_cumblebutt Mar 01 '25
Can’t wait till Elon moves there
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u/grey_skies42 Mar 02 '25
If we're paying to send elon into space, that rocket better damn well be aimed at the sun.
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u/stradivari_strings Mar 01 '25
That's 55-401 million km for the rest of us.
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u/misteloct Mar 02 '25 edited 12d ago
[This comment was edited in protest to Reddit banning me for the following "violent" comment: "Elon musk fuming is fatally toxic."]
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u/Norwegianlemming Mar 02 '25
American with just a year of college education here. I always assumed when NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in Mars' atmosphere, and NASA said it was because of bad Imperial to Metric conversion, that it was just an excuse for the mishap. Or do NASA engineers not generally work in metric for 99.99999999% of their equations. I'm not counting web posts in Imperial to help Americans visualize.
I don't blame NASA for covering it up (if they did), either. At that time, anti-science rhetoric was starting to gain steam, and budget cuts were frequently occurring in regards to NASA. Sometimes, you have to CYA.
Why the US doesn't switch to metric is beyond me. A simple system using 10s? No. Must keep:
12 inches = 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard 1 mile = 1760 yards (5280 feet)
And that's only for distance measurements. We won't get into the nonsense of weights. FML, why do we have to stay with the 1700s England standard (we won't talk about a shipwreck causing the loss
Don't get me wrong. Even my 4 years of infantry training in using kilometers (klicks) for navigation (we won't talk about the 2 MILE run for the PT standard), metric will never be completely "visualized" for me. And that's OK. I'm old and a product of my environment. The US needs a hard conversion, starting at grade school, to move beyond our asinine system, IMO.
Sorry. Just musings from a fellow American who has heard and used the phrase, "you're not building a rocket ship" many, many times in the construction industry who has often thought about the efficiency of the metic system while I add and subtract feet and Inches and fractions of inches when attempting to get somewhat gnat's ass on my measurements. (There are times when even ¼" (6.35mm) can be the make or break in my world. Though I doubt the 0.35mm would).
Peace out big brain. Whatever endeavor you take (or have already taken) in the realm of Physics is beyond me. And that's awesome. I need you as much as you need me (maybe), to keep moving society forward.
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u/Disjointed_Sky Mar 02 '25
That was due to contracted Lockhead Martin software incorrectly reading in Miles while the requirement by NASA is SI units.
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u/stradivari_strings Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25
They've done it more than once. See Challenger, ppl killed. Also due to contractor error in unit conversion.
We in 🇨🇦 use different systems for different measurements. Like driving distance in hours. " in construction. But all speeds are in metric, and everything science is metric. Because how could you otherwise? It's ok to to have 2x4's and count fractions when cutting plywood. But then everything else... 🙄. It has to start with children in grade school.
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u/TransRational Mar 02 '25
Is the sound real? Gosh that’s so soothing. I need Mars sounds to replace my rain sounds for deep sleep.
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u/jumpsteady Mar 02 '25
I know they cant exactly 'dig' but have they found any precious metals on the surface in any of these missions?
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u/Lamb_or_Beast Mar 02 '25
So, what is the sound? Is that actually sound from a recording on Mars? Would any sound be very muffled due to such a thin atmosphere?
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u/mdschoff Mar 02 '25
Not going to lie, but a parking garage and a high rise apartment build would look great here
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u/Quirky-School-4658 Mar 02 '25
What’s the scale of this? Like approx how tall are those rises in the back?
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u/therealityofthings Mar 02 '25
The scariest environment imaginable, thank you, that's all you had to say.
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u/Beebiddybottityboop Mar 02 '25
It’s just weird to me, it’s looks all like things so relatable to the naked eye but not. Even the footage from that meteor that we landed a probe on. It looked so familiar, a giant cliff face, and collected sediments on around the base of these weird meteor cliffs millions of miles out in space just floating around.
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u/balls_deep_inyourmom Mar 02 '25
show us what's behind the camera , I know you are hiding the old buildings
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u/Lazaras Mar 02 '25
Black dune sand, let me land, and let escape this earthly pain. Black dune sand, let me laaaand
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u/footloverhornsby Mar 02 '25
Yet, anyone takes a photo of a ghost or “big foot” from 140 meters away and it looks like the photo was taken on an actual potato
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u/CapeCodNana Mar 02 '25
And yet we STILL can't id the DC pipe bomber thru cctv/security cams here on earth, from 20 feet away.
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u/HandyHousemanLLC Mar 02 '25
They can't even get a crystal clear picture of the moon without AI and you want me to believe this is a real video of Mars
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u/asshole_commenting Mar 02 '25
Wow. I haven't gotten the chills in years
Just felt one run down my body
How are we moving so forward and so backward at the same damn time
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u/Longjumping_Car_1222 Mar 02 '25
What if the Sahara dearest is just the start, and one day we will be mars? It’s not crazy to think that life was once on mars 30 million years ago.
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u/occultatum-nomen Mar 02 '25
I know there's no reason it shouldn't resemble some places on Earth, like a desert, but it still feels almost eerie how familiar it is.
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u/Perfect-Ad5184 Mar 02 '25
I am fascinated by space! I don't for one second believe we will ever be able to live there, but it's still absolutely beautiful to see the surface of another planet
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u/FlobiusHole Mar 02 '25
Is it even possible we could terraform Mars? I feel like Earth will have rid itself of humans way before we could do that.
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