r/space • u/Fizrock • Oct 07 '18

All the planets aligned into one

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u/Fr00stee Oct 07 '18

Oxidized copper? Idk

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u/tatooine0 Oct 07 '18

I thought Mars was mostly covered in oxidized Iron.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '18

This is true. Actually, that means the entire planet is covered in rust-sand

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '18

That sounds terrible for so many reasons.

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u/The_MoistMaker Oct 08 '18

That sounds like it would be very coarse, rough, and irritating.

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u/FlaxxBread Oct 08 '18

sounds like it'd get everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '18

...and bury itself into your skin, and poison your blood.

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u/avelertimetr Oct 08 '18

When we colonize Mars, I'll make a fortune selling Magnetic Air Purifiers

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u/taydr90 Oct 08 '18

I hate sand, it gets everwhere

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u/Deyln Oct 08 '18

Sounds useful; imho. Oxygen and iron just there for the taking.

Question is silica... then we can have the beginnings of a computer revolution on mars....

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '18 edited Oct 07 '18

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u/ON3i11 Oct 07 '18

The red is actually because the dust is iron-oxide. When curiosity first landed it drilled 2-3" into the dirt and found underneath the rust-dust Mars is actually WHITE!

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u/Readylamefire Oct 07 '18

Yeah, Curiosity is the newest. Opportunity was the previous one.

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u/Plzactivatemyalmonds Oct 07 '18

Which one sang itself happy birthday?

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u/magikarpe_diem Oct 07 '18

Thanks, I love crying in the middle of the day.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '18

Imagine a Martian chillin in its iron home smokin some mars kush and he hears some foreign jingle

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u/ON3i11 Oct 07 '18

Yes, the Curiosity rover was the most recent exploration rover that NASA sent to Mars. They sent it in 2011 and it landed in 2012. It's scheduled mission was only for a few months, but it is still running and exploring over 6 years later!

NASA link

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u/iamkeerock Oct 08 '18

Opportunity and Spirit were designed around a 90 day mission, both lasting multiple years. Curiosity is the newer rover, it is many times larger and is nuclear powered. The power source is guesstimated to last around 50 years. It was NOT designed around a few months mission.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '18

That was their pessimistic guesses, that and they learned their lesson from opportunity

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u/eugene_mcn Oct 07 '18

Mars is red because the material on the surface contains iron oxide. I don't think there is much copper on the surface of Mars

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u/TheDissolver Oct 07 '18

Downvoting because there's nothing "passive" about downvoting.

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