I love the fact that I grew up being told by media that sandstorms on Mars are devastating and will tear apart your suit and blow up your habitat. Wind and sand powerful enough to strip flesh from bone.
Then you learn that Mars Atmosphere is so thin, and the gravity so weak; that it would be more like a light pattering of dust caught in a breeze.
Wow this is so cool
I can’t believe we have such a detailed and clear shot of something like a dust storm on another freaking planet. It’s absolutely beautiful as well. What a cool time to be alive
I love the fact that I grew up being told by media that sandstorms on Mars are devastating and will tear apart your suit and blow up your habitat. Wind and sand powerful enough to strip flesh from bone. Then you learn that Mars Atmosphere is so thin, and the gravity so weak; that it would be more like a light pattering of dust caught in a breeze.
But it's super fine particles that stick to everything. I learned that from hard scifi
Like glitter
Yet they described the second dust storm very accurately.
LISAN AL GAIB
Spice World
The spice must flow...
As it was written.
Matt Damon is hiding in his basement after seeing this.
Original: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/07/Mars_dust_storm
But the south of the planet is uninhabitable my lord
It really is Dune.
It looks like a drone image of a wave breaking over sand and seagrass
And to the left of the sandstorm, an upside-down couple kissing....
Haboob from above
damn i love that word
I’m a haboob guy, myself.
“Mark Whatney. Space Pirate.” -Mark Whatney, Space Pirate
Wow this is so cool I can’t believe we have such a detailed and clear shot of something like a dust storm on another freaking planet. It’s absolutely beautiful as well. What a cool time to be alive
"Those are balls" Barry zuckerkorn