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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. By comparison, the Earth's Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA is 800 kilometers long, 30 kilometers across, and 1.8 kilometers deep. The origin of the Valles Marineris remains unknown, although a leading hypothesis holds that it started as a crack billions of years ago as the planet cooled. Several geologic processes have been identified in the canyon. The featured mosaic was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Stars shine and satellites glint in this clear, dark, night sky over Wannon Falls Reserve, South West Victoria, Australia. In fact the fuzzy, faint apparition above the tree tops is the only cloud visible, also known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. In the foreground, an Omphalotus nidiformis (ghost fungus) from planet Earth shines with a surprisingly bright bioluminescence. Like the Magellanic cloud, the ghost fungus was easily seen with the eye. Its ghostly glow was actually a dull green, but it appears bright green in digital camera picture. Two images were blended to create the scene. One focused on the distant stars and Large Magellanic Cloud some 160,000 light-years away. Another was focused on the foreground and glowing fungus several light-nanoseconds from the camera lens.

Photo by Gill Fry

A Lie

Posted by MFish • Profile • 05/22/20 at 10:47PM • Government • See more by MFish

A lie is stated; it will confuse
as you spread the word of "fake news."
You are the "Fake", easy to see.
Why others don't, is beyond me.

A Comment by Sam

Your avatar
Sam • 05/24/2020 at 12:03AM • Like 1 • Profile

Well said. The pattern is clear and recurrent. All the fake noise makes people numb, but I still have hope that this coming November, reason will prevail and he will have to find another home.

He Walks

Posted by MFish • Profile • 05/22/20 at 08:57PM • Government • See more by MFish

He walks far from the beaten path,
incurring anger and public wrath.
He lies while cheating in his way,
telling all, "It's done for the U.S.A
Keep your blatant lies unto your self.
Place you obstinance up on the shelf.
It doesn't belong; no where to go,
except to always, put on a show,
of abusing reporter who ask of you,
"Is what your mouth is saying really true?"

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing atomic gas, this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of the largest star forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, the Great Carina Nebula. The telescopic close-up frames a field of view about 80 light-years across, a little south and east of Eta Carinae, the nebula's most energetic and enigmatic star. Captured under suburban skies improved during national restrictions, a composite of narrowband image data was used to create the final image. In it, characteristic emission from the nebula's ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms is mapped to red, green, and blue hues, a color palette also popular in Hubble Space Telescope images. The celestial landscape of bright ridges of emission bordered by cool, obscuring dust lies about 7,500 light-years away toward the southern constellation Carina.

Photo by Ignacio Diaz Bobillo

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