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HiPOD: Bedrock Exposures in Nirgal Vallis

This observation covers two tributaries and the main channel of Nirgal Vallis. The channel is approximately 610 kilometers long and is named after Nergal, the Babylonian god of war and counterpart to the Roman god of war, Mars. Mars Orbiter Camera image show light-toned bedrock; our high resolution picture can gives us a better view of the channel form and bedrock stratigraphy. (Grayscale cutout is less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km.)

ID: ESP_074945_1515 date: 23 July 2022 altitude: 257 km

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Hubble Sees a Star Called HBC 672 and the Bat Shadow : A young star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casts a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region. (via NASA)

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Titan, moon of Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe from 2004 to 2015.

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The Pipe Nebula : East of Antares, dark markings sprawl through crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer E. E. Barnard, the obscuring interstellar dust clouds include B59, B72, B77 and B78, seen in against the starry background. Here, their combined shape suggests a pipe stem and bowl, and so the dark nebula’s popular name is the Pipe Nebula. The deep and expansive view covers a full 10 by 10 degree field in the pronounceable constellation Ophiuchus. The Pipe Nebula is part of the Ophiuchus dark cloud complex located at a distance of about 450 light-years. Dense cores of gas and dust within the Pipe Nebula are collapsing to form stars. via NASA

Rick Sternbach’s 1976 cover for Under Pressure, by Frank Herbert

Art G.Shvecova (Design graphics - Blue Nebula_140318)

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