Hi all,
thought you might like this - sunset on Mars. The REAL thing. The link below will work for today (20th June); tomorrow there will be a different image, but you can always see the previous day's or the entire collection. Here it is:
sunset
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| Author: | vanvlak [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:00 pm ] |
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Hi all, thought you might like this - sunset on Mars. The REAL thing. The link below will work for today (20th June); tomorrow there will be a different image, but you can always see the previous day's or the entire collection. Here it is: sunset
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| Author: | Legion 4 [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:18 pm ] |
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Nice ! I saw Venus, just after Sunset on my side of the planet, last night ! It's a small world ! 
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| Author: | dafrca [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:27 pm ] |
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Funny, it does not look that different. dafrca |
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| Author: | vanvlak [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:29 pm ] | ||
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My thoughts exactly - although the evening sky is bluer, and the sun smaller. Wish I could see it 'live' some day... 
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| Author: | Markconz [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:33 pm ] |
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Heh cool, a new background!
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| Author: | Tas [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:07 am ] |
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Nice one! I was looking the moons of Jupiter last week though the Large Binoculars on the bridge. One of the advanatges of the very clear skies 100nm out to sea! Thanks for the link V! |
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| Author: | dafrca [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:39 am ] | ||||
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Yah, but that could even be due to the film or lense etc. Funny thing that. dafrca |
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| Author: | vanvlak [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:43 am ] | ||||||
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Sceptical, Dafrca? Remember, it's not that far from home, and it's a rocky planet like ours. Incidentally, I was some time ago extremely pleased to discover what is Tolkien's Middle Earth. The clue came from the last book of a science fiction trilogy by C.S.Lewis, 'That Hideous Strength'. (The other 2 are 'Out of the Silent Planet' and 'Perelandra') Middle-Earth is HERE. The planets Venus, Earth and Mars are the three terrestrial planets (we ARE egocentric - why not the three Martian planets?), which have a relatively similar structure and composition and which are located in the inner Solar system. And Earth is the middle of the three. Middle Earth. 
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| Author: | Legion 4 [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:08 pm ] |
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"Space ... the final frontier ..." 
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| Author: | stormseer [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:59 pm ] |
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I have Out of the Silent Planet on my to read stack V (along with much else of course!) -is it worthy of being bumped closer to the top?  Great image too... |
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| Author: | dafrca [ Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:23 am ] |
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The site is fun, I have to bookmark it. Today's image is great too! dafrca |
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| Author: | vanvlak [ Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:51 am ] | ||
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It's a bit old fashioned and a bit moralistic, but not offensively so (oh dear, how does that sound?), and you get a few great scenes like the Hnakra (no, this is NOT Maltese) one, and the Sorn in the mountain. It's closer to HGWells than anything else, and millions of light years from the 40K environment. Weird (and they get weirder still as the trilogy progresses) but good stuff. Dafrca, that's my favourite astronomy website. Great pics every day. |
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| Author: | Dwarf Supreme [ Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:44 pm ] | ||
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I decided to bookmark it too Agreed, nice pics.
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| Author: | dafrca [ Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:36 am ] | ||
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I can see why. I like it. dafrca |
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| Author: | vanvlak [ Sun Jun 26, 2005 8:35 am ] |
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Hi all, in the future of the galaxy there is only war.... where have I heard this one before? Anyway - take a look at todays (Sun. 26th June) astronomy pic of the day here See all those spots? Every single one is a galaxy... we're even smaller than Epic scale! It's even possible the Orks exist somewhere out there 
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