One of the Martian moons travels between the rover and the sun. It’s a bit different to my usual posts, and not my OC :).

I believe it’s Phobos, so there might be doom music kicking in any second now…

Source: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZL7_1056_0760664099_781EBY_N0501254ZCAM01538_1100LMJ

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THATS NO MOON ETC.

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Is that radiation causing those awesome 70s colour spots

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More or less, those are dead pixels that have been killed by radiation over time. The same thing happens to cameras on the ISS.

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Well why would they not remove dead pixels after they download photos? If it is always the same pixel why aren’t they simply processed out and replaced with avg of neighbors? If it is radiation noise then they would need a few photos.

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31 points

That’s a very curious shape for a moon.

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For real that’s one Funky moon

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It’s technically just a random rock plucked from the asteroid belt. It’s just not big enough to crush itself into a neat ball with gravity, like with planets or our Moon

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That’s why I like the picture. Technically just a random rock, just like earth. :)

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25 points

That’s no moon….

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4 points

That’s a fried egg!

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All hail the celestial potato!

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The picture kinda reminds me of Mimas.

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A space being rolls its eyes:

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Glorious.

All hail Space Cookie Monster

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Absolutely first thought. Thanks for confirming, Internet cousin!

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No

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Ah, THAT’s who it reminded me of, I couldn’t think at the time :-)

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My doggo is in the hospital and this put a real smile on my face, thank you!

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Oh no, poor doggo! All the best for his/her recovery :-)

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This inspired me to do some photoshopping.

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Nice! I was going to do something like that, but I was in a rush. And also lazy.

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