February 23, 2012 I Heart Mars

CaliforniaMama · 02-23-2012, 09:31 AM

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An image taken by the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a heart-shaped feature that the camera's team at Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, wants to share with other Mars fans.

The feature is about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) long, in the Arabia Terra region of Mars' northern hemisphere. It appears in an image taken on May 23, 2010. A small impact crater near the tip of the heart is responsible for the formation of the bright, heart-shaped feature. When the impact occurred, darker material on the surface was blown away, and brighter material beneath it was revealed. Some of this brighter material appears to have flowed further downslope to form the heart shape, as the small impact occurred on the blanket of material ejected from a much larger impact crater.

The Context Camera was provided by and is operated by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, Calif. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft and operates it in partnership with JPL. For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, click here.

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Guy Webster (818) 354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov

Courtesy of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology

Trilby · 02-23-2012, 11:51 AM

Its a valentine from Mars!

infinite monkey · 02-23-2012, 12:04 PM

I think it looks like a fly.

Lamplighter · 02-23-2012, 12:08 PM

How so ? I don't see any zipper

infinite monkey · 02-23-2012, 12:09 PM

Bwaaahahahahahaaa!

You're wily today!

Sundae · 02-23-2012, 12:16 PM

I saw Mars really clearly the other night.
And it was so obviously the Red Planet. It hung low in the sky, was ruddy and was identifiably a planet - much smaller than the moon but far larger than any star.

I began to realise why so many sci-fi novels feature Mars - it's so close, spacially.

Then I woke up

Mars is visible to the naked eye of course, and I have seen it.
But it was nowhere near as spectacular as in my dream.

Sheldonrs · 02-23-2012, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Its a valentine from Mars!

That's because:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060672/

ZenGum · 02-23-2012, 04:28 PM

No, wait. Hearts represent an aroused vagina.

Turns out women are from Mars. So where the heck are men from, then?

And Sheldon is from .... (too easy).

Clodfobble · 02-23-2012, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

No, wait. Hearts represent an aroused vagina.

Is there some sort of historical justification for this? I'd never heard it, but it makes so much more sense than that organ beating in our chest that looks not a damn thing like that shape.

ZenGum · 02-23-2012, 05:05 PM

The theory is widely reported, but there are a number of other theories as well. I'd guess that several reasons for this shape have converged. But the vulva theory is most fun.

Especially when the heart is drawn with an arrow going into it.

richlevy · 02-23-2012, 10:01 PM

Kind of disproves the whole 'Men are from Mars' theory.

BigV · 02-24-2012, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

Kind of disproves the whole 'Men are from Mars' theory.

We're **all** from Mars. It's just that the guys are more homesick.

02-23-2012, 11:51 AM	#2
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Its a valentine from Mars! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

02-23-2012, 04:28 PM	#8
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	No, wait. Hearts represent an aroused vagina. Turns out women are from Mars. So where the heck are men from, then? And Sheldon is from .... (too easy). __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

02-23-2012, 05:05 PM	#10
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	The theory is widely reported, but there are a number of other theories as well. I'd guess that several reasons for this shape have converged. But the vulva theory is most fun. Especially when the heart is drawn with an arrow going into it. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

02-23-2012, 10:01 PM	#11
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Kind of disproves the whole 'Men are from Mars' theory. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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02-23-2012, 12:04 PM	#3
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I think it looks like a fly.

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Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	How so ? I don't see any zipper

02-23-2012, 12:09 PM	#5
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Bwaaahahahahahaaa! You're wily today!

02-23-2012, 12:16 PM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I saw Mars really clearly the other night. And it was so obviously the Red Planet. It hung low in the sky, was ruddy and was identifiably a planet - much smaller than the moon but far larger than any star. I began to realise why so many sci-fi novels feature Mars - it's so close, spacially. Then I woke up Mars is visible to the naked eye of course, and I have seen it. But it was nowhere near as spectacular as in my dream.

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