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neufer, See this page from the Rover website. Shows several pictures featuring 'blueberries' in "near true colour". They are not that blue! http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040318a.html Early in the missison, "Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres, the miss...

bystander, Doesn't the lack of proof become a "no" by default? Or am I taking science too literally? Isn't there just a level of probability or improbability depending on whether you're a glass half empty or half full kind of person. Calculating it accurately either way is the 'don't know...

OK this is a little OT but I'm now wondering about life we may have taken 'off Earth'. Did the lunar modules still contain a breatheable atmosphere and would it still be sufficient to support microbial life left aboard by the astronauts? I wonder if there's a little bit of green mould sitting on the...

Nothing here in Yorkshire, England. It was well overcast last night and raining this morning.
It's a great shame as we've just had a string of cold clear nights. It will have to be 2015 then!

I often wonder what an infinite number of monkeys might look like.

I can DIGG IT You can DIGG IT He can DIGG IT She can DIGG IT They can DIGG IT We can DIGG IT so lets DIGG IT Can you DIGG IT baby? Hey! You! Yes you, over there sniggering away. Stop that and behave! This is a serious forum for science type geeks and chaps - and not for general silliness! This is f...

Thanks Andy. I'd like to invite you to come see the auroras from Alaska but I think it would be a lot easier for you to visit perhaps Norway. Easy hop to Copenhagen, Oslo and then maybe Tromso. Perhaps you have a direct hop over to Iceland. You will get them in the UK but it usually takes a pretty ...

Thanks for that. I can relate to the frustration of not being able do the science at the very time that it would be so much desired. It would be inconceivable that I would have to switch off my cameras during such an event. http://www.spacew.com/gallery/image001984.html Thanks very much for that li...

It's also a good name if you wanted to sell real estate :) Sea front property on the moon... a place to ride your lunar surf board without the danger of preditory moon sharks :) Strike that... Sea front property on the moon... over the calmest of seas! There wouldn't be any predatory sharks on the ...

I for one would like further insight to the crater. Did the meteor arrive from the upper right as there seems to be no cliff? Why does it appear the whole crater bottom collapsed leaving those cliffs in the back of the crater and also in the fore as evidenced by the shadow? If you regularly visit L...

Yep, I see it now, not inverted at all. Could this be the result of two impacts with the second filling in the crater of the first? There seems to be two centres to the rays. Is there any evidence of volcanic activity on Mercury? I was wondering if this was originally a volcano that received a dire...

What you refer to as pavement tiles and fire hydrants are parts of the rover. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080129.html West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars (APOD 2008 Jan 29) I was quite concerned how much dust covers the photo electric cells on the rover! :shock: I know they're...

Thank you Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell for all you have done to put up this fine image and all the many, many others that have so brightened my computer screen. As an astronomy buff, clouds are on my mind as much as any object beyond. Keep up the good work! -Noel P.S., if it helps the complain...

I for one am fed up with … aaACHEW!... bull$#** and artistic eye candy, this is suppose to be Astronomy Picture of the Day not Earth Picture of the Day (EPOD). Messenger takes what, a 1000 pictures a day and we get ~3 images, now that’s anal-retentive. What the hell does the Trans Canada Highway ha...

The APOD website is truly great, my day is always brightened when I take a look during my morning coffee. I don't like to leave for work without looking first. My grateful thanks to the people who provide it. Complaints? For goodness sake, it's a free resource of fantastic pictures which can both am...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080118.html I think I've read, or heard at least that all resolvable stars that we can see are in our own Milky Way Galaxy, and that we cannot resolve a star in another galaxy as they're simply too far away. Does this APOD mean that there are occasional exceptions ...

Again, thanks for the kind words. I've been overwhelmed with the response I've gotten today from this photo. Lance McVay lancemcvay@gmail.com http://sacredartichoke.com Well in that case Lance, I'll add mine too. It is a great picture. It looks really cold! Many thanks from a mere stargazer in York...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html The three parallel curving lines in the bottom left of the image struck me, any thoughts as to what they might be ? Sorta reminds me of the lines left from successively lowering high tides :) I seem to remember that this was discussed at length last ye...

Many thanks to you all. You have provided me with a modicum of entertainment, along with confirmation of certain secret opinions of mine. On the one hand, if there is clear evidence that this is one thing and not another, a brief summation will (probably) suffice, and I'll toddle off, sucking my th...

jimmysnyder wrote:No one is buying my image of the earth tipping over like an egg the day after an equinox? How about a moment of silence for the passing of Marcel Marceau?

Shouldn't that be a moment of noise?

Because "you just cant trust people :(" /Agent Smith, The Matrix/ I watched all three Lord of the Rings films again recently and finally realised at the very end that the actor who played Elrond was Agent Smith. I thought I'd seen him somewhere... :) "Do you like what I've done with ...

geckzilla wrote: BTW, what happens when APOD hits the year 2095?

We'll all be dead, that's for sure...

Today this image caught my attention because I noticed the features in the photo craterchains put in this thread were also clearly visible in it. Now, surely someone else has already noticed this, but, assuming that it is dark on light, it seems to have been traveling in some direction when it land...

Splendid, dramatic photo! Having just watched the 'Lord of the Rings' triology again as it was transmitted on terrestrial UK Tv for the first time, this could be the model for Mt.Doom! John (I know - it's a story!) I cannot believe you said that John. It was the first thing that I thought when I sa...

huh? Astronomy picture of the day. Like the rainbows the other day, (meteorology picture of the day?), the astronomical pedgree of the volcano picture, (geological picture of the day?), is somewhat lacking. There have been many A POD's which have little or nothing to do with astronomy is all I'm sa...