Sunday, June 23, 2019

"Good Night, Moon"

The Waning Gibbous

21.0 days old moon

62.3 percent lit

This is the moon seen through clouds and haze in the sky. It will probably be the color of the moon with a dimmed glow when it is mined.

June 14, 2019
By Sophie Lewis

NASA's (click hereMars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has spotted an unusual symbol on the surface of Mars — the iconic "Star Trek" Starfleet logo. The MRO captured a series of strange chevron symbols on a Martian sand dune in the southeast Hellas Planitia region.

The MRO HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera team at the University of Arizona highlighted the discovery Wednesday, though the image was acquired by the team April 22.

"Enterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo," the camera team behind the MRO HiRise image said...