dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET?
In 1977 NASA compiled 116 images to represent Earth and put them on a gold record and put it on the Voyager space probe and due to it not being aimed at anything this record will probably outlast Humanity. Unless we catch up to it one day its unlikely this record will never be viewed in the next thousand if not million years. And yet you can't look at all of these images on NASA's website because of copyright. Yup this isn't an existential post anymore it's anti-copyright. It's been 60 years, time to let these pictures enter the public domain.
NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system
Oh and of course us
Honourable mention
Beaver supermoon.
(November 15, 2024)