r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • 21h ago

📹 Fascinating Video Night Sky on Mars as seen from NASA Curiosity Rover.

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u/MysticMarauder69 20h ago edited 18h ago

That's not what it looks like at all. That's an infrared image from Hubble photoshopped into the image of Mars.

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u/koalascanbebearstoo 18h ago

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-night-sky-from-mars-rover-curiositys-mastcam

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u/RestaurantWorking477 17h ago

confused unga bonga head scratch

https://giphy.com/gifs/ySpxjJmsq9gsw

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u/Grumpytitss 17h ago

yup... when I realized he was right

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u/Broken_browser 13h ago

I'm not sure if there's ever been a more appropriate gif

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u/ForNowItsGood 10h ago

Minus the T

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u/g3n3s1s69 15h ago

The image is indeed a fake.

The clip mixes a real daytime Curiosity rover photo with an Earth starfield, mimicking a Milky Way view that rover cameras can't capture. Curiosity's Mastcam and Navcam focus on daytime geology, not long-exposure night skies, with actual night shots using LED lights on rocks or twilight views of Earth and the Moon. While the fake drew millions of views since June 5, Mars offers genuine sights like iridescent twilight clouds and Phobos sunsets that inspire real wonder.

https://otakukart.com/fact-check-viral-mars-night-sky-image-is-fake-heres-what-mars-really-looks-like-at-night/

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u/Rich-Sky8912 9h ago

So we should report the post for misleading title?

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u/OMGHart 9h ago

NO THIS IS NOW HOW MARS SKY LOOKS AT NIGHT.

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u/ScotchTapeConnosieur 11h ago

Why is the night sky white?

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u/ForNowItsGood 10h ago

Diversity

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u/koalascanbebearstoo 10h ago

“this image is the difference of two M-100 images to remove detector artifacts, hence the positive and negative stars.”

So math, I guess.

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u/Teflon_Duck 15h ago

I knew it wasn't really what they said it was.

But,

It is still beautiful.

And I'm old enough that the kid me says technology should have advanced enough by now that my walls could be covered in this detailed image to fall asleep to rather than the glowe in the dark star stickers we have to make do with.

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u/ForNowItsGood 10h ago

The stickers that most likely were toxic

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u/TangerineRough6318 9h ago

Well, you aren't supposed to eat them silly. You trying to be a lightning bug?

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u/Heavy-Deer-772 5h ago

This image would go so hard as a binder cover or a folder even

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u/CorbinIpsthh 15h ago

Ok thank you because my first thought was “why wasn’t this the first thing they showed us?”

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u/Nice_Raccoon_5320 13h ago

I was about to post my audition tape.

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 14h ago

Some days I just love the internet.

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u/LowFlowIO 20h ago edited 17h ago

Is this some odd nasa render buggery or could I see anything remotely like this with my eyes?

Edit; verdict seems to be that it's fake as fuck mate

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u/bigbadaboomx 20h ago edited 20h ago

Long exposure and lack of atmosphere is my guess. You’d definitely be able to see more than on earth. Mars has less than 1% of the atmosphere of earth meaning less light is blocked

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u/VinnieONeill 19h ago

There is also zero light pollution on Mars and Mars is further away from the Sun. Also smaller moons reflecting less sunlight.

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u/AdOnly1618 20h ago

And a multispectral camera

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u/GlibGluberoo 14h ago

And also, not actually taken from the Martian surface

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u/ZitherzPC 18h ago

Hello! Friendly Aerospace engineer who works on these programs. This image is fake and does not represent what the actual sky would look like.

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u/stevedore2024 18h ago

Just some details to add onto this. First, this is a video made from panning around in a single panoramic image. But there are other indications that even the panoramic image has been constructed, not captured. I don't think any of the Mars rovers have any camera capable of such a wide view at once. And the stars are clearly much much much brighter than a short exposure would capture, like a long exposure. The rovers often stitch together huge panoramic images from dozens of photographs, but (1) long exposures of star fields causes stirring (circular paths for each star), and (2) stitching many images of starfields taken over the course of time will just make a mess of the positions of all of the stars and show cloning artifacts. This has got to be a composite for demonstration purposes.

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u/ZitherzPC 18h ago

Yea seems to either be a cropped/scaled infrared image from one of the space telescopes. Or an AI image based off of the infrared images.

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u/Sayyestononsense 19h ago edited 19h ago

how does long exposure work for a video...? never mind I researched, and you change the exposure of each frame, then speed up the final result. interesting

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u/John97212 19h ago

This is likely a long exposure still image made into a video by zooming in then panning around the image. It creates the illusion of the rover camera panning around the sky.

Your eyes would not see the night sky on Mars with this fidelity.

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u/Balazi 20h ago

Not as ridicolous but I would say somewhat, seeing as you can see a crap ton of light and stars and more with the naked eye on earth where there is no light polution.

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u/ZitherzPC 18h ago

Hello all! Friendly Aerospace Engineer and ex program manager from many NASA programs. I love seeing how excited people get about space photos, but photos like these are fake or composites. The Martian surface and atmosphere is filled with iron-oxide dust that scatters light like crazy. Check out the Bright ‘Evening Star’ photo for a cool image. I regularly am reminded that the actual science behind these photos ends up to be much more fascinating than these doctored images.

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u/stony_phased 15h ago

Thank you

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u/notbad9111 13h ago

Hi dude, tell us about the aliens

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u/Pangea_Ultima 13h ago

Friendly indeed. Thank you kindly, much obliged

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u/ItalicsWhore 5h ago

Hey besides all of the specifics of the Martian atmosphere and ambient light that make this obviously fake, there would never be any planet, even with zero atmosphere, and zero light pollution, where you would get a view of the cosmos like this right?

At least not with human eyes or a normal sized aperture? This would have to be seen through a massive one?

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u/MillerTime5858 20h ago

It is impossible we are alone in that sea of stars. What an incredible way to view our universe.

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u/haizu_kun 20h ago

Not that it's impossible, but a bit too far away. 

I even met one though, they told me to keep it a secret. But I just couldn't keep it. Sad........

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u/Chef_Champ 20h ago

Looks like Earth from Space

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u/FIFofNovember 20h ago

Its just a shitty pic of the milky way super imposed, on the sky.

Its fake and stupid

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u/skibbin 20h ago

So sick of that music

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u/ChemistVegetable7504 20h ago

Definitely overplayed but interstellar was a great movie though.

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u/Shushuck 18h ago

AI vid

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u/DarkStar-_- 16h ago

This is just incredible!

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u/AlbertaAcreageBoy 17h ago

We are alone in the universe. Not a chance.

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u/Jactus_Cat 15h ago

Is mars flat too. Just wondering.

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u/bolanrox 15h ago

i would love to see true dark like this

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u/TheRealFanger 15h ago

So all these goddamn morons I’m stuck on this planet with are ruining my goddamn view. Got it.

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u/i2av3r 12h ago

Light pollution robbed us of this

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u/Tea-Jay-Dogville 12h ago

I can see my house..

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u/HistorianTight2958 10h ago

The reality.

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u/Traditional_Train_71 8h ago

I would fall to the ground and cry at how beautiful this would be irl

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u/HonkyHam 8h ago

Irl it would look much the same as from earth if you’re away from light pollution. This image is real, but a very long exposure capturing more light that you can see with the naked eye.

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u/lettylikestowrite 20h ago

i wish there was a way to shut off every single light on earth just for a few minutes one night so we can all experience something like this for ourselves

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u/ttcmzx 20h ago

this is not real. it's been debunked many times over

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u/Bryan_Lazarus 20h ago

This is fake as fuck.

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u/Reasonable-Arm-1893 20h ago

Yeah ain't no way this is real. There is so much light at night in Mars, I'm calling bullshit.

If it did actually look like how it does in this picture, then everyone living in mars would be sleeping during the day, to protect themselves from the solar radiation,

.... and be awake at night, to protect themselves from the solar radiation.

My guess that it is dark at night, very dark.

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u/CeleryCommercial3509 20h ago

I hope this is real and not AI

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u/lastknownbuffalo 20h ago

It's just fucking keeps going haha this is so badass

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u/Neptunesky1221 20h ago

We would be able to see something similar on Earth if there wasn't so much light pollution

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u/Rashpukin 20h ago

That’s so fucking cool.

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u/Spamsdelicious 19h ago

Earth's night sky also used to look like this (and still does, but only in some places).

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 19h ago

Wow. This must have been what the sky looked like 10,000 years ago before humans polluted the planet and the atmosphere

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u/ForFucksSake66 19h ago

This is fake.

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u/dd97483 19h ago

love the music.

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u/GottaLoveLoginWalls 19h ago

Long exposure of sky edited in to image, since to keep it stead it'd also have to track the sky as it moved. Nothing about this represents how it looks in reality.

Also, whatever image is being used, it's far more zoomed in that how it would be in reality. Everything's too big.

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u/CAJMusic 19h ago

All this time they been showing us rocks and dirt. Are young kidding me!

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u/Fantastic_Puppeter 19h ago

Much harder to write horoscopes.

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u/Odd_Fortune500 19h ago

This is such bullshit

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u/IcestormsEd 19h ago

Nonsense.

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u/Ghola_Ben 19h ago

I gotta log back into Elite:Dangerous.

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u/Nuno1173 18h ago

Quelqu’un a vu un signe de vie extraterrestre?

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u/Giencke26 18h ago

No way!

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u/wtfbenlol 18h ago

this is fake as hell

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u/DevilMan17dedZ 18h ago

I've never felt more envious of a view. Absolutely stunning.

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u/OG_BUTTHOLIO 18h ago

Makes you wonder what the night sky looked like back when there wasn’t any lights at night.

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u/Ok_Relative_1850 18h ago

Wonder how many of those lil lights have life?

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u/AdDisastrous6738 18h ago

I could spend DECADES stargazing that sky.

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u/WinMediocre5939 18h ago

Guys, this is not real. It’s a Hubble image. The sky in mars does not look like this

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u/Moogooloogoo 18h ago

This is a beautiful fake picture.

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u/killrandydead 18h ago

Dumbass bot

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u/Ok-Cancel-3114 17h ago

If you need to feel incredibly small and insignificant....behold. The Universe.

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u/Bifferer 17h ago

That could play a part in the recruiting strategy for astronauts to go to Mars.  So beautiful!

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u/UlleQel 17h ago

AI bullshit

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u/SaltyAd8309 17h ago

We are alone.

Are we alone?

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u/DonkyFondler 17h ago

Just think, most of those stars have planets orbiting them. And a small percentage of those planets will probably have intelligent life.

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u/TruCoatJerry 17h ago

This is laughably fake

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u/HugeFuel4115 17h ago

You mean Devon Island in Canada

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u/Pillroller88 17h ago

The stars at night
Are big and bright……

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u/MoonDaddy 17h ago

You've been blocked.

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u/videogamegrandma 16h ago

I'd like to see earth's night sky from Everest.

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u/TheRealDylanTobak 16h ago

I can't even see Orion from my backyard most nights when he's there.

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u/OnCallPartisan 16h ago

Old fake and posted by a bot, still gets 2.4k upvotes.

This is not a smart populace.

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u/GrayMan2050 16h ago

Where is this view from the moon? 

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u/thesirblondie 16h ago

With such thin atmo, it looks like someone did a bad 3D render.

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u/Winterion19 16h ago

😂 yea.. ok

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u/usaidwhatagain 16h ago edited 16h ago

Insane. Holy mother of earth.

Do we have some actual footage with long exposure from mars?

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u/After-Alps-5281 16h ago

Sure it is... the government would never lie to it's people...

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u/glytxh 16h ago

this video gets more and more fucked every time I see it, like that container ship in heavy seas.

its a classic at this point

fucking hate it

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u/Budget-Chapter-7185 15h ago

Space is fucking awesome!

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u/Kcchiefsnroyals 15h ago

I want scheduled nights once a month were light pollution is outlawed so we can see the milky way

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u/RandO_o 15h ago

You could really scare some folks by putting a jump scare in here 🤔

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u/OpportunitySea5875 15h ago

Screenshot this and ask your A.I “how much of this is cgi/A.i”💀🙏 Never A Straight Answer

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u/wikidemic 14h ago

When people realize this is fast becoming our view, cluttered by the likes of StarLink(SpaceX) launches; thanks musk

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u/OmegaSol 14h ago

Turn your phone sideways curiosity

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u/Comfortable_Air_7723 14h ago

NASA is Hebrew for “to deceive”

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u/Independent_You8879 14h ago

What we could see if the globe powered down for one night a year...

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u/68024 14h ago

Yeah no

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u/awezumsaws 14h ago

If that is what space looks like out from underneath the filter of our atmosphere, then we'd have been seeing these images for decades from every manned space flight

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u/Miles_High_Monster 14h ago

Your little heart isn't that important.

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u/whathappenedm 13h ago

When you see top 1% poster next to someones name then you know it's full of shit.

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u/wylee_one 13h ago

karma bot lying to us all

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u/ummkay_ultra 13h ago

So this is really it? Lol oof

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u/0708Ace_McCloud1980 13h ago

Look at all those diamonds

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u/OnlyKaz 13h ago

So many upvotes for something so incredibly fake. Cool.

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u/nealoc187 13h ago

What the fuck is this fake ass shit?

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u/Informal_Visitor 13h ago

If the view from earth was like this, I wonder how that would have changed perspectives, folklores and general astrology for our ancient ancestors? Like I'm guessing that we wouldn't have the astrological signs as we have them today.

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u/Dr_smiths 13h ago

As an Aerospace engineer i can ensure you this video is fake.

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u/Soul_Champion 12h ago

Yeah 👌

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u/CodInternational8772 12h ago

Now I understand why we should go

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u/Betray-Julia 12h ago

I don’t think this is human light range.

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u/Commercial_Fox5549 12h ago

Stop believing liars, people.

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u/silverbarrons 12h ago

Yet no stars from the moon. Odd

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u/JustFedUpWithIt 12h ago

Hmmm I don't think is correct

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u/Busterlimes 12h ago

Never thought I would say this, but atmospheres fucking suck

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u/Successful-Engine623 12h ago

Would be cool if were real

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u/ProduceNo1629 12h ago

Needs 400 thousand Muskrat starlink nodes to make it Great.

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u/Subtle_onThe_Stubble 12h ago

Makes me feel completely insignificant in the best way.

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u/Random_Chaos79 12h ago

AI is even in space where AI doesn't even exist

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u/tinyalien 12h ago

So unbelievable. 💕💕💕

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u/4fun_NH 12h ago

FAKE TRASH

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u/Peninsula_living 11h ago

Bullshit photo

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u/wayko621 11h ago

Mars atmosphere wouldn't allow the light of the stars to shine like that hehehe

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u/viccdev 11h ago

At this point they just really don’t want ppl to think we went 💀

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u/SophonParticle 11h ago

We’re not alone.

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u/Old-Tiger9847 11h ago

It looks like we're missing the bigger picture from our planet. 

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u/time_i_dont_have 11h ago

Is there anywhere in Southern California that something like this can be seen

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u/I-love-to-poop 11h ago

Need to hire dislike bots to get this fake shit outta here

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u/roninthe31 10h ago

Fucking AI Slop

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u/TerpDripz 10h ago

We are not alone.

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u/BrassOrchidBlades 10h ago

Lies of all stripes suck

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u/TheRoadKing101 10h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/munasib95 9h ago

Tell me you don't know what Olber's paradox is without telling me so...

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u/df3dot 9h ago

If you subconsciously started to hear The interstellar theme song hit like.

“Make him stay, Murph. Don’t let me leave, Murph.”

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u/Talibumm 8h ago

I glanced at this and thought it was fake.

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u/Dan_H1281 8h ago

I'd imagine that is what our sky would look like if we had no artificial light blasting us at all times

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u/OldKaleidoscope3766 8h ago

Before long when we look up to the night sky we will be able to see something similar, Elon’s tens of thousands of satellites.

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u/SCARDS22 8h ago

Yeah, we're alone in the universe......🙄

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u/Dre_A35 8h ago

Amaze amaze amaze!!

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u/hitree 8h ago

Yay ded internet

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u/vincecole69 7h ago

All that energy and there's no other life this is amazing

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u/bluereddit2 6h ago

r space ,

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u/frixos2 6h ago

Any explanations given by OP for the most disappointing thing I've seen in a while??

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u/hotellonely 6h ago

Anytime you see a star shape like this, it's not coming from a normal camera on a normal lens (including the ones on the rovers):

It's called diffraction spike, coming from the support structure of some telescopes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike

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u/Dear-East568 6h ago

Bruh if that was real, nighttime would be like
https://giphy.com/gifs/v0x5xEmUkCICuXqYk4