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A great APOD, especially the click-through version. It's good to get back to Mars.

Thank you Robert and thank you Sirgurdur. This is definitely nicer. And thanks for the explanation. We appreciate your work.

It's a striking picture and I'm glad it was used. I'm also glad most of the APODs don't have copyright symbols on them.

The tail direction here is corrected but the APOD description is still wrong; up and to the left.

I'm with Beyond; the tail I see is pointing down. It was up and to the left in the April 8, 2005 APOD.

And it is a nice picture. However the version in the "Not often imaged" link is spectacular.

A pretty shot and very well done I think.

I recommend that APODs be chosen more frequently from the detailed shots of Mars taken from orbit; we don't see very many of them here and they are fascinating.

A nice shot. The sun looks very bulging; 3-dimensional.

I take it there's a problem with the usual APOD computer. Nothing serious I hope.

This is a great APOD, btw.

It tells the time by producing a streak of light on the hour. Note the dotted lines and follow the "this sundial" link.

Thank you and congratulations to all of you who work to bring APOD to us. It's nearly always educational and enjoyable and a LOT of us look forward to it every day.

Obviously a great APOD. A neat image, even if imagined, and it's stirred up a lot of interest in the science.

I really like this APOD. A great image and a lot of pretty accessible science going on.

It is certainly a striking picture taken with either a lot of luck or some good planning. Short on astronomical knowledge but timely and fun to see. Good APOD.

Boomer12k wrote:I am sorry, but with a picture like this it is hard not to get religious...

Not for me it isn't. The monuments are man-made. The aurora is natural, and well-explained, not supernatural.

... If M-type red dwarfs are equally good hosts for life as G-type stars like the Sun, then we have indeed beaten the odds by being in orbit around a G-type stars like the Sun instead of an M-type red dwarf like Gliese 876. I think it is just too improbable that an unusual star like the Sun would b...

Quick reply: Why Not?

And I'm curious about the philosophy/religion behind your "let's reach into a tub and find a planet for humans" model of why we're here. "Here" being on earth around the sun, not "in existence".

It's a great APOD. It seems to me there must be enough pics of Mars of different natures that we could have more of them and fewer of the earth pics that bother some folks a lot and me at times. Anyway I was intrigued by the claim these guys could pass through each other. I looked around and found t...

Another great APOD; my congratulations to the provider. Now I hope neufer or someone can point me to an understandable explanation of how a dying star can produce a barrel-shaped nebula. Surely the axis of the barrel must be the star's axis of rotation, and I can see material preferentially being ex...

I agree Flase. The screen-filling version I get on the first click is very good but the zoomed-in, largest version is grainy and hazy, and a smaller biggest version would be better if that were convenient. But it's a great APOD.

I usually defend the choice of topics here, but this one leaves me cold.

Great APOD, bystander great video, orin what goes around comes around.

Great picture, great APOD.

Great shots LC!

It's a great picture and geographical events are automatically astronomical events (if not for you, at least for 99.9999999+% of the inhabitants of the universe)

Great APOD, very well done project.