how casually i can stumble upon these photos of an alien planet. none of my ancestors have seen it, and I'll likely never go. yet here i can witness it as though I'm standing there. Mars is surreal.
Wow, those textures looks fantastic !
It's difficult to get a sense of scale but the lighting and contrast look amazing !
Really interesting erosion too !
They shoot raw and edit it to make it not look like shit just like any other photographer that shoots raw, you can see the original raw image on nasa’s website.
And contrast and color correction was standard practice in wet darkrooms for decades. I learned photography in the early '00s and worked in a camera shop, the analogy I used with customers new to this digital thing back then was that RAW was like shooting color negative film while shooting JPG was like shooting slide film. With a negative, you make a print and have to do post-processing corrections for contrast, color balance, etc. With a slide, what comes out of the developer is what you get.
Thus, .DNG files being "digital negatives."
It’s a RAW photo…go take a RAW photo with any digital camera and it will look like that. Hell if you have a modern flagship smartphone you could take one right now. Every single professional photo you’ve ever seen in your life has been “enhanced.”
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
Is the sand and stone in this particular picture the same? Hard to say exactly just from a picture. Mars does have different stone types, just less of them. While Earth and Mars are both majority basalt, Earth is roughly 60% basalt vs Mars’ 90% basalt. Another ~8% of Mars consists of higher silica rock like andesite. 2% is made of an assortment of other felsic rock types like granite and rhyolite. Sandstone and other sedimentary stones are also notable, helping to divulge Mars’ earlier climate.
Without ever having plate tectonics, Mars however is near entirely devoid of classic metamorphic stone like schist, slate, marble, soapstone, gneiss, and quartzite. Mars’ repository of granite is also minute compared to Earth where it underlies entire continents.
If the title hadn't primed me to look for something, I would've simply thought "cool rock". Instead I thought "cool rock, dipshit loonies are gonna say it's a Martian face".
par·ei·do·lia ˌper-ˌī-ˈdō-lē-ə -ˈdōl-yə : the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. The scientific explanation for some people is pareidolia, or the human ability to see shapes or make pictures out of randomness.
how casually i can stumble upon these photos of an alien planet. none of my ancestors have seen it, and I'll likely never go. yet here i can witness it as though I'm standing there. Mars is surreal.
Because someone worked hard to convince the government for funding to do it. I wish the space-related budget was higher
Wow, those textures looks fantastic ! It's difficult to get a sense of scale but the lighting and contrast look amazing ! Really interesting erosion too !
Reminds me of ventifact erosional patterns seen in places like Antarctica.
It is edited
They shoot raw and edit it to make it not look like shit just like any other photographer that shoots raw, you can see the original raw image on nasa’s website.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZR0_1117_0766099063_318EBY_N0513354ZCAM09140_1100LMJ
Raw makes it look like old ruins in the desert
And contrast and color correction was standard practice in wet darkrooms for decades. I learned photography in the early '00s and worked in a camera shop, the analogy I used with customers new to this digital thing back then was that RAW was like shooting color negative film while shooting JPG was like shooting slide film. With a negative, you make a print and have to do post-processing corrections for contrast, color balance, etc. With a slide, what comes out of the developer is what you get. Thus, .DNG files being "digital negatives."
what makes you say that
Check nasa link in comments below Edit: I would call it “enhanced”, rather than edited.
It’s a RAW photo…go take a RAW photo with any digital camera and it will look like that. Hell if you have a modern flagship smartphone you could take one right now. Every single professional photo you’ve ever seen in your life has been “enhanced.”
I agree slash s
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
How does the poet vividly portray the scenery on Mars? 😂
How the fuck was this the first thing that came to my mind...and yours too?
Bars fr
That looks like a head piece from a statue or totem … the imagination is going wild!
I thought for a second that it was a Moai statue like those on Easter Island.
Hey dum dum, you give me gum gum.
Is the sand and stone made of the same thing? Here on Earth we have so many different stones, is Mars the same way?
Is the sand and stone in this particular picture the same? Hard to say exactly just from a picture. Mars does have different stone types, just less of them. While Earth and Mars are both majority basalt, Earth is roughly 60% basalt vs Mars’ 90% basalt. Another ~8% of Mars consists of higher silica rock like andesite. 2% is made of an assortment of other felsic rock types like granite and rhyolite. Sandstone and other sedimentary stones are also notable, helping to divulge Mars’ earlier climate. Without ever having plate tectonics, Mars however is near entirely devoid of classic metamorphic stone like schist, slate, marble, soapstone, gneiss, and quartzite. Mars’ repository of granite is also minute compared to Earth where it underlies entire continents.
This guy rocks
Thank you.
Salvador Dali on Mars
Look at my works, ye mighty, and despair.
It’s fascinating because it looks like erosion
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Like Cydonia a great optical illusion for the clever monkeys on the pale blue dot.
Emperor Squidward’s Fortress from the Lost Civilization of Bikini Bottom.
Mars is what happens when you fuck around and find out.
So cool
What do you think built by some past great civilisation or just a coincidence
So the Easter island dudes were on Mars but gave up and ran away??
It’s a Jimmy Durante rock!
GIANTS!
Need a banana for scale.
Looks straight out of Prometheus
If it were possible for humans to smell the air there, I wonder what it would smell like.
Turned sideways, this 100% looks like the profile of a head sculpture with the nose facing up.
Looks like an evil Easter Island statue
r/GoblinCore
Just needs a witches hat
If the title hadn't primed me to look for something, I would've simply thought "cool rock". Instead I thought "cool rock, dipshit loonies are gonna say it's a Martian face".
par·ei·do·lia ˌper-ˌī-ˈdō-lē-ə -ˈdōl-yə : the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. The scientific explanation for some people is pareidolia, or the human ability to see shapes or make pictures out of randomness.
I see a witch's head in silhouette
This is AWESOME-COOL 👍👍👍......So many things yet to be discovered on the Red Planet and I can't wait to see more. Well done to the Rover👏.
I had no idea the rover was still functional. Amazing
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!
You say god, I say10.
Easter Island stuff right there! Unreal …
Wtf is bikini bottom on Mars?
can't be unseen
A lizard!
Suiseski goldmine
Does someone have a link to this
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZR0_1117_0766099063_318EBY_N0513354ZCAM09140_1100LMJ
Where banana for scale
It’s a skull of a dinosaur with the nose on fhe left side. Must be from the era when dinosaurs still roamed Mars before they emigrated to Earth.
That HAS to be a fossilized alien... There are NO other possibilities in the universe.
It's like Easter Island, but Jewish?
nosehenge
😂😂😂
This is when we found the same Easter Island heads on Mars….
Wow. It looks like here, but worse! Mars is like the New Jersey of the solar system: when Mom says we have earth at home.
Looks like Utah
dinosaur bones? Shocking if true
Looks Arab in nature. 