There's something really special about seeing the atmosphere fade into the darkness of space in images from orbit (except if you're a flat-planeter)
This is Mars, Cloudy Elysium region by NASA Viking 1 in 1978!
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Mission: NASA Viking Orbiter 1
Image Time: 1978-05-28T21:33:39Z
Filters Red, Green, Violet
Product IDs: 710a58, 710a56, 710a52
Credit: NASA/JPL/AndreaLuck CC BY
I labeled this photo, feel free to fact-check me if anything looks off :)
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Credit: NASA/JPL/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mars, Cloudy Elysium Mons by NASA Viking 1
@andrealuck
That place became a huge island after Mars got areoformed in #KimStanleyRobinson's #GreenMars .
The map shows a number of places from the #MarsTrilogy, the canal that filled Hellas Planitia with water from the north, and the trip that Sax and Coyote took together to see the making of the canal by the "soletta", the space lens that burnt rock.
The first colonization of Mars occurred, in #KSR's fiction, in 2026.
Andrea Luck
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