#NASA PICTURE OF THE DAY TODAY MOVIE#

She thinks that people have an emotional attachment to many of the rovers on Mars. “All their tracks will be blown away but the hardware will be covered in dust and preserved,” said Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist at the Flinders University of South Australia’s Department of Archaeology.

#NASA PICTURE OF THE DAY TODAY MOVIE#

Most of this precious Martian history is covered in dust, as recreated in the 2015 Hollywood movie The Martian when stranded astronaut Mark Watney travels for a month across the red planet to dig out the remains of NASA’s Pathfinder lander from 1987 to use its cameras to communicate with Earth. 1971’s Mars 2 mission, which crashed, contains a vacuum cleaner-sized robot on skis and tethered by an umbilical cord.Ī future exhibit in a future museum on Mars? Some have been pinpointed and examined from orbit while others-such as several Soviet landers from the 1970s that didn’t return any radio signals-are merely estimated. Glance at a list of artificial objects on Mars and you’ll discover that the red planet is covered in remnant-strewn landing sites. With the exception of bits of NASA and ESA’s Mars helicopter-aided Mars Sample Return mission, everything that goes to Mars dies on Mars. Indeed, Mark, some things are just meant to be.NASA's Opportunity rover's 2005 image of the remains of the heat shield that protected it as it made. I guess some things were just meant to be!' If that isn’t odd enough, it is only because I failed to heed the flight attendants instructions, “in preparation for landing, please turn off all electrical devices” that my phone was even on in the first place. When I finally got on a flight home, I tried to get an aisle seat, as is my preference.

It was during the freak “Snowpocalypse” that covered the city in a blanket of ice, shutting down the airport for two days. The funny part is that I was never supposed to be on that flight.

If you enlarge the image you can also see, right in the center, another plane making its approach to a parallel runway. People were so perplexed as how this image was even possible, a college science professor created a graphic diagramming the physics of the shot (SEE BELOW). Aside from a little sharpening, the picture is straight out of the camera. It has spurred countless debates on whether it’s a real photograph (it is), and whether it’s photoshopped (it isn’t). AOL called it “the best photo ever taken from an airplane window.” Yahoo News labeled it “the best iPhone picture ever.” It has over 100 million views online. It was named “Photo of the Year” by Society’s Choice Magazine. It trended on Google, Yahoo, Reddit and God knows where else. Within days it appeared in newspapers in dozens of countries all over the world. News outlets and social media sites picked up on it.

Somehow, someone from USA Today saw it and the next day it was featured in the paper’s weather page, both in print and online. Boom! I thought it was a pretty cool photo so I put it on my Facebook page. I grabbed my iPhone, pressed it against the window and snapped off a single picture. I knew this scene would be gone in seconds. As we descended beneath the clouds and swung out over Lake Michigan to make our final approach into O’Hare International Airport, I saw this amazing sight: through an opening in clouds, the sun’s rays were shining down on the city, projecting the shadow of the skyline onto the lake. The sun was setting and the city was shrouded in a heavy cloud cover. 'A few years ago I was returning to Chicago from a business trip. I mean, really! The city appears upside down in the clouds!!! This is what he told me. The beautiful colors and shocking imagery literally stunned me on this gorgeous summer day so I reached out to ask Mark more about how the photo happened. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured with explanations from Nasa professionals about what is going on in them. A local Chicago photographer, Mark Hersch, (who happens to be one of the nicest people you will ever meet) just had his photo 'Inverted City Beneath Clouds' chosen by Nasa as the Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Nasa picture of the day today