Going Carl Sagan on your asses

[Anonymous No.1564146]

Look at this shit. Do you know what this is? It's a sunrise on Mars. Fucking Mars.
>Whoa cool...moving on
No, stop. Think about that for a minute. Do you realize how amazing this picture is. I mean, think about it. It's a picture of a sunrise as seen from ANOTHER PLANET. This isn't some lame ass "artist's concept" of what a sunrise would look like on Mars. This isn't some picture a hippie took with his digital camera while hiking through the desert one morning. This is an actual picture that was actually taken on Mars. What you're looking at in this picture is what you would actually see if you went to Mars, landed on the surface, and watched the sunrise.

I mean, do you realize how crazy it is that we even managed to do this in the first place?

[Anonymous No.1564152]

And speaking of shit we shouldn't even have been able to do, here's a picture of an Earthrise from the moon. Think about that. This picture is the complete opposite of what you see (almost) every night. Instead of being on Earth seeing the moonrise, you're on the fucking moon watching EARTHrise. And look, it's a half-Earth. If you were on the moon, this would just be another phase of the Earth for you, much like how we have phases of the moon here on Earth. You'd have your quarter-earth, full earth, etc.
And remember, this shot was taken by actual people, not a robot. Again, you realize just how insane that is? Nevermind sending robots to other planets, nevermind putting people in orbit. WE LANDED PEOPLE ON ANOTHER CELESTIAL BODY. We are the only known living organism in the universe to have actually LEFT it's home planet to go and walk around on another celestial body. Not even 100 years ago people could only look up at the moon and go "that's pretty" never thinking that it would ever be more to people than just some bright object in the night sky. But then just a couple decades later we're walking on it.

[Anonymous No.1564154]

I felt that way the first time I saw photos from Mars. Back when I realized I was seeing a photograph on ANOTHER PLANET. Not so exciting now that I've seen hundreds of them.

[Anonymous No.1564156]

>fuckin miracles

[Anonymous No.1564159]

Finally, here's Jupiter. I don't know what it is about these pictures, but photos of Jupiter and Saturn creep me the fuck out. The photos look banal enough. If you looked at them alongside pictures of Mercury and Venus and didn't know anything about the planets you'd assume they were all roughly the same size. But no, Jupiter is fucking huge. Just to get the whole planet in this picture the probe that took it had to be 25 million miles away. Do you realize how far away that is? That's roughly 2/3 the distance between Earth and Mars. Notice how tiny the Sun is in the OP pic compared to how it looks on Earth? That's how much smaller the freaking Sun gets when you move 35 million more miles away. Now take that idea of distance and realize that this picture was taken from 2/3 of that distance away from Jupiter and yet it looks like you're the same distance from it as you would be if you took a picture of Earth from Orbit. That's how huge Jupiter is.

And that's what creeps me the fuck out about it. It's like staring into the ocean on a pitch black night when you're floating over the mariana trench. You just realize how utterly insignificant you are, how incomprehensiably tiny. You could be swallowed up by the thing and crushed out of existence and absolutely nothing observable would happen.

[Anonymous No.1564162]

GET OVER IT!!!

[Telescope !!WirhlGuJPtA No.1564167]

>Hurrrrr look how open minded I am
We took a computer, slapped it onto a glorified RC car with solar panels, screwed some Tonka Toys Construction Car scoops on it, then fired it's ass off in a giant rocket.
Then when it landed, it's camera took some pictures, and the drunk janitors at NASA took turns fucking around with the controls until it got stuck.

Doesn't sound as neat now, does it?
I still think it's neat though. Just saying, there are varying views.

[Anonymous No.1564174]

>>1564152
Would this "Earthrise" emit a dim light over the dark side of the Moon, similar to the the moonlight that we receive here on Earth? Would it simply be not quite as bright?

Also, would we be able to see more of the Milky Way galaxy on the night side of the Moon than what we see here on Earth during the night?

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1564176]

>>1564146

[Anonymous No.1564179]

[Anonymous No.1564180]

i like how you do op. this is a picture from the huygens probe on titan, a moon of saturn. it is the first human (sort of) outpost in the outer solar system.

[Anonymous No.1564188]

>>1564174
Dark side of the moon is "dark" because it never faces Earth. So no, it would never be illuminated by Earth for the same reason that there's no moonlight when there's no moon in the sky.

And yeah, you'd have an easier time seeing the milky way since there wouldn't be any lights or even an atmosphere to get in your way.

[Anonymous No.1564225]

>Dark side of the moon is "dark" because it never faces Earth. So no, it would never be illuminated by Earth for the same reason that there's no moonlight when there's no moon in the sky.
I am aware of this. However, it is my understanding that the part of the Moon that faces the Earth will sometimes not be exposed to direct sunlight during certain times of a month. During this time, would it be possible for the Earth to illuminate the darkened area on the Moon similar to how the Moon illuminates the part of the Earth that is not directly facing the Sun?
>And yeah, you'd have an easier time seeing the milky way since there wouldn't be any lights or even an atmosphere to get in your way.
I was under the impression that you could not see the Milky Way on the Moon when the Sun is out. Apparently, the astronauts could not see the stars during the time that they were there. Or am I incorrect?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1564226]

What you are seeing is a long-term exposure of the milky way as seen from Australia. An actual look using the eye's short-exposure (hurdur) time would, amazingly, not look very dim. It's actually possible to see amazing shit without having Hubble's pictures superimposed with infrared, gamma rays, x-rays, and every other wavelenght of radiation, along with long-exposure... You get the idea.

Anyways, the view shows a line of stars perpendicular to the equator. Most know it as the Milky Way.

Well, that is the equator of the galaxy, as seen from our tiny spot, 25,000 light years away from the Central Galactic Black Hole. So we are surrounded in all directions (Not so much to the Galactic North and South, but still) by other star systems, and Hydrogen-Helium nebulae that will eventually give birth to other stars.

Our sun is merely a large-scale fusion reactor, constantly blowing out radiation into space, and trillions upon trillions of tonnes of Hydrogen are constantly flying away from it only to spiral back inwards at the Heliopause, where the Solar Wind meets the Galactic Wind. In a way, the Sun's magnetic field acts as a magnetic parachute, pushing our star in its orbit around the Central Black Hole, for another circuit, another quarter of a million years of spinning around. And in that short time, it doesn't look like we're moving because the stars are moving along with us.

And there it is: The galactic equator. Every star that is within reach of humanity thanks to the benefits of relativistic time dilation.

Every star, nebula, planetary disk, every gas giant, every forgotten, failed brown dwarf star, every asteroid and every comet, every moon, every planet.

All the sentients and the non-sentients, the single-celled organisms trapped in cryvolcanic vents in some distant comet as it flies by its parent star, to beings capable of designing, putting together, and flying antimatter-driven rockets to near the speed of light and back to stationary.

[Anonymous No.1564244]

>>1564225
>I am aware of this. However, it is my understanding that the part of the Moon that faces the Earth will sometimes not be exposed to direct sunlight during certain times of a month. During this time, would it be possible for the Earth to illuminate the darkened area on the Moon similar to how the Moon illuminates the part of the Earth that is not directly facing the Sun?
Yeah, you're right. I confused myself. I forgot that when you can see the moon it's behind the Earth since it's reflecting sunlight towards the Earth, and when you can't see it it's actually in front of the Earth where would only be visible during the day were it not for the fact that it isn't reflecting any sunlight towards Earth. So yeah, you'd get some Earthlight reflected on the moon as well.

>I was under the impression that you could not see the Milky Way on the Moon when the Sun is out. Apparently, the astronauts could not see the stars during the time that they were there. Or am I incorrect?
I was assuming you would be on the side of the moon that isn't currently facing the sun when trying to stargaze

[Anonymous No.1564258]

Jupiter is god tier.

[Anonymous No.1564266]

>>1564244
Actually wait...no you wouldn't get any light because if the moon was behind Earth the Earth would be dark on the side it's facing which would mean there would be no light to reflect.

FUCK I'M CONFUSING MYSELF

[Anonymous No.1564271]

>>1564258
Is the Big Red Spot like a giant hurricane or more like a giant-ass tornado?

[Anonymous No.1564286]

ITT

exis-fucking-tentialism

I love you guys,

[Anonymous No.1564294]

>>1564271
Hurricane. Tornado is short lived and results from a cyclonic stream of air being forced downward toward the ground. A hurricane is a massive storm rotating around a central point of low pressure, and can last for long periods of time as long as the storm is "fed".

Pic not space related but still too cool to not include in a post about tornadoes.

[Anonymous No.1564305]

I don't know how to break it to you guys but the sun looks that small mainly because the camera is zoomed out. The actual difference would be minor.

[Anonymous No.1564309]

>>1564305
No, the actual difference between a camera zooming in and out on the surface of Mars would be minor, assface.

[Anonymous No.1564311]

itt: OP smoked a fat joint

it's okay, OP I am right. there. with you, 100%.

[Anonymous No.1564314]

>>1564294
But they have found that the storm is bringing up materials from the lower parts of Jupiter and exposing them to the surface, indicating a strong updraft, which is present in tornadoes.

[Anonymous No.1564316]

>>1564309
Look at the way the objects curve out of perspective around the edges, the lens is taking a very wide view in, it's very much zoomed out.

[Anonymous No.1564324]

>>1564316
NIGGA U IS HIGH! Look at the horizon.

[Anonymous No.1564325]

>>1564314
And hurricanes.

[Anonymous No.1564327]

>>1564316

I can't see shit.

[Anonymous No.1564332]

>>1564325
It's, like, 300 times stronger in tornadoes.

[Anonymous No.1564334]

>>1564324
You wouldn't be able to tell from the horizon, that would appear straight no matter how much you zoomed out.

Horizons are the only things straight in panoramas as well.

[Anonymous No.1564337]

We should start colonizing other planets as fast as possible. When some disaster (GRB, big ass rock, you name it) inevitably hits our world we'll all die and our civilization comes to an end.

[Axel the Possum No.1564338]

>Just rewatched Cosmos today.
>Come to /sci/, see a ton of Sagan/Cosmos threads
>My face

[Anonymous No.1564339]

>>1564152
>implying that picture isn't tilted to the side
>implying that picture is what you would actually see if you stood on the moon

[Anonymous No.1564348]

>>1564334
If they're in the middle of the picture. This one's on the bottom. It should be curved at the edges, and it isn't.

[Anonymous No.1564351]

>>1564332
But this is based on highly inaccurate data and about a hurricane the diameter of Earth.

[Anonymous No.1564354]

>>1564351
.... on a planet with 2.5 times more gravity than Earth.

[Anonymous No.1564363]

>>1564354
>highly inaccurate data

Not to mention the fact it could be something as simple as convection caused by extremities in temperature.

[Anonymous No.1564371]

[Anonymous No.1564373]

>>1564339
You were saying?

[Anonymous No.1564385]

>>1564339
You've probably never seen a moon-rise if you think that's tilted to the side...

[Anonymous No.1564400]

If i were the first person to watch a martian sunrise, I'd cry like a little girl the whole time.

[Anonymous No.1564402]

Earth from 6 billion kilometers, taken by Voyager.

[Anonymous No.1564406]

>WE LANDED PEOPLE ON ANOTHER CELESTIAL BODY
suuuureee.. we did.....

[Anonymous No.1564411]

>>1564406
We did.

[Anonymous No.1564416]

>>1564400
And then at night
>OH MY GOD IT'S A DOUBLE MOONRISE! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!

[Anonymous No.1564423]

Earth: As seen from Mars

[Anonymous No.1564424]

>>1564411
You're blinded by lies.

[Anonymous No.1564429]

I am in no hurry to land on mars.

[Anonymous No.1564439]

>>1564416
You'd have a hard time seeing Deimos.

[Anonymous No.1564437]

FYI, the "earthrise" picture is not an "earthrise" because the earth doesn't rise on the moon. The same side of the moon always faces the earth, so the earth is always in the same position in the sky from any given location on the moon.

[231 v6 !!U3VRVNcDPoU No.1564452]

>>1564339
wat

[Anonymous No.1564453]

>>1564437
>You're in lunar orbit
>Far side of moon
>Come to near side
>See earth rising above the horizon
>Earth rising
>Earthrise

[Anonymous No.1564490]

>>1564146
That's insane, but you know what's more insane? The fact that we spent $20 billion dollars on uninsulated air-conditioned tents, more than NASA's entire budget.

Make space exploration not war!

[Anonymous No.1564501]

>>1564453
I guess it is from orbit. Didn't look close -- thought it was from the surface.

[Anonymous No.1564504]

<This

[Anonymous No.1564507]

>>1564504
lol

[Anonymous No.1564521]

how desensitized to awe has humanity become where being blown away by nature now can only be achieved by being "LOL HIGH" and anyone lucky enough to experience such awe while completely sobre must be faking it

that makes me sad.

anyway if you like this sort of shit, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQxP-20c0c
this series is basically this thread time 100 with loads and loads of new pictures/video/info/etc about everything fuckwin in our solar system. Watch this shit.

[Anonymous No.1564533]

science is awesome, in the most literal sense of the word. the fact that saddens me most is that i'll not live to know about some things that will be discovered or developed in the far future.

[Anonymous No.1564537]

>>1564179
>Radioactive

How many times have I seen this comic and not realized this. So wrong, but so funny.

[Anonymous No.1564539]

Are there any pictures of what the moons of Mars look like from its surface during the day?

[Anonymous No.1565874]

>>1564363
This. It's most likely just caused by... wait for it... magnets. Magnetic forces.

[Anonymous No.1565884]

All this picture makes me think about is how many lives could have been saved and how many children could have been sent to school if we spent the money that went on this dick contest on really important issues.

Good thing the cold war is fading into obscurity and no one cares about this shit anymore except nerds.

[Anonymous No.1565899]

>>1564159
Jupiter sounds NASA-Voyager recording
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs

[Anonymous No.1565916]

>You just realize how utterly insignificant you are

Why do people always say this? I NEVER feel insignificant thinking about the cosmos. For eons, stars and nebulae and planets and supernova go about doing their methodical slow mathematically-governed business, and then suddenly we arise on one watery little rock, look up at the heavens and say "Time to get shit done." Space is incredibly vast, yet we have the capacity to calculate that vastness and discover the mysteries that surround us in countless galaxies. We move between worlds at will, we have the power, if not the resources yet, to alter the trajectory of asteroids, to change the surface of a planet, to send out signals and radiation and energy through space that previously could only be done by the unthinking reactions of solar furnaces. What before was never-changing is now changeable by our desires. Perhaps we cannot fully yet truly comprehend all the laws that govern the universe, but we have our foot wedged firmly in the door of knowledge and we're only a couple crowbars away understanding. We are the cosmos formed into living, thinking, doing creatures, capable of leaving our mark wherever we will it in this garden we have arisen in.

I look up at the sky and realize I am THE MOST SIGNIFICANT thing in the universe.

[Anonymous No.1565919]

>>1564179
thanks for that anon, i lold hard

[Anonymous No.1565943]

Apparently the atmosphere on Saturn's Titan could be so dense that one could literally flap their arms a fly/swim. May be BS though.

[Anonymous No.1565953]

>>1565916

>implying earth isn't a primitive dustball inhabited by psychotic apes.

[Anonymous No.1565959]

>>1564146
Ooh, new wallpaper, thanks Op.

[Anonymous No.1566286]

>>1564294
There is no eye for it to be considered a hurricane, and the wind speeds are too low for it to be considered a tornado. Like, they're only about 60 mph greater than the average F5 tornado on Earth. A tornado of that size would probably have wind speeds in the 1000's. So it must be a tornicane... a hurrnado.

[Anonymous No.1566301]

Amerifags you better get us to the moon or mars before I die. As days pass, your first moon landing starts to look more dirty and fake.

Hey whats that? Nah man, spending money in killing arabs is more important, its for the ''FREEDOM'' after all

[Anonymous No.1566304]

A STILL MORE GLORIOUS DAWN.

[Anonymous No.1566312]

>>1566286
how about we just call it a sub-tropical low pressure cyclone.

[Telescope !!WirhlGuJPtA No.1566321]

>>1566301
Why don't you quit talking shit and ask your own piss-poor gov't to do it instead of insulting America, then demanding they fit your agenda.

[Anonymous No.1566330]

>>1566312
It isn't really that great and phenomenal when you think about it like that.

[Anonymous No.1566336]

>>1566321


typical amerifag refusing to accept reality

[Anonymous No.1566339]

[Telescope !!WirhlGuJPtA No.1566343]

>>1566336
What? No, I'm saying that instead of complaining that another country isn't doing what you want your country to do, you should fucking complain to your own gov't. America doesn't have to change it's agenda just so you can see people go to fucking Mars. Once you are an American citizen, then you have a right to complain to the American gov't. You can't just sit there and insult a country and expect them to do something for you

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1566348]

Man, I just torrented and watched Contact and... Fuck.

This thread + that movie + all other threads like this + being a 4channer = bawww inducer.

When I saw the "For Carl" thingee at the end of the movie I was about to cry bitch tears ;_;

[Anonymous No.1566349]

>>1566343


I never complained, I'm just encouraging you guys to take us to Mars and spend the money in useful things :3

[Anonymous No.1566357]

Carl Sagan is my dad i never had

[Telescope !!WirhlGuJPtA No.1566358]

>>1566349
I want my country to do those things to. But you were typing a bit too furiously. I'm just saying, don't make fun of a country and then tell them to do something your gov't won't do. Although, I'm guessing you're from the EU. In which case, the ESA is already planning a Mars landing. Still in it's early stages, but they might beat US to Mars

[Anonymous No.1566416]

>>1566343
Dead animal fucker.

[Anonymous No.1566445]

What a coincidence /sci/, I happen to also be enjoying my herb at this very moment.

And thanks for that mars sunset OP, it's beautiful, trimmed it and now works perfectly for my dual screen setup.

[Anonymous No.1566485]

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

[Anonymous No.1566487]

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

[NYC !!BG5SWFzlFKb No.1566514]

>TURN ON THE FUCKING REACTOR

[Anonymous No.1566644]

>>1566485
Where was that image taken from?

[Telescope !!WirhlGuJPtA No.1566656]

>>1566644
The Voyager probe. I think right before it entered the Heliopause, or after, I don't know

[Anonymous No.1566668]

>>1566656
Oh, thanks.

[Telescope !!WirhlGuJPtA No.1566684]

>>1566668
You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.1566694]

>>1566684
Swell.

[Anonymous No.1567030]

>>1566487

faggot it's only a picture

[Anonymous No.1567059]

>>1567030

Faggot that's his entire comment on that picture, wouldn't fit into a single post

[Anonymous No.1567116]

>>1567059

Well duh.

[Anonymous No.1567170]

thats is a sunset on mars not a sunrise

[Anonymous No.1567230]

I just posted this over on /lit/. Hopefully, we'll get a poet or two to put some appropriate words to this.

[Anonymous No.1567524]

>>1567170
[citation needed]

[Anonymous No.1567536]

>>1567524

[Anonymous No.1567587]

>>1567536
well. citation granted. why don't they have pretty little pink sunsets like we have?

[Anonymous No.1567748]

here you go!

[Anonymous No.1567784]

>>1567587

Probably due to the different atmosphere on Mars compared to the Earth's.

[Anonymous No.1567810]

I would give anything to stand on the Moon or Mars.

If I had one wish...

Just to stand there for even a split second. They said that the astronauts who landed on it immediately had a life changing experience that really put everything in perspective.

[Anonymous No.1567817]

>>1567587
Light scattering on mars is due to suspended dust particles instead of air as its got a stupidly thin atmosphere. You get red skies and blue sunsets. We can see the same on earth if u got alot of crap in the air (heavy pollution, dust storms, etc)

[Anonymous No.1568494]

I like this thread :)

[Anonymous No.1569051]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4gFpiRD2PI

We're all young. One day, my friends, we will all blast off from this planet toward our destinies, with our /sci/borgs by our sides, our knowledge in our heads, and Sagan in our hearts. We'll gaze out the digital view screen at what lies ahead, the incomprehensibly huge playground, the one our scientific forefathers dreamed about, and we'll shed a manly tear as we carry their memories throughout the galaxy.

To quote the writers of Star Trek, who are our brothers in spirit, I say,

To the journey.

[Anonymous No.1569288]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ALElMLpRA

[Anonymous No.1569303]

Why are people suddenly posting songs? Get the fuck back on topic.

[Anonymous No.1571693]

This thread makes me all warm and fuzzy inside :3

[Anonymous No.1572096]

Can you see phobos from the surface of Mars?

Maybe it would be very small, but cute instead!

[Anonymous No.1572146]

>>1572096
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Phobos_from_Mars