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Corey S Powell

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

NASA Science

Curiosity Views Earth Setting, Phobos Rising

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising.

Corey S Powell

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social replied · last week

The first time they were ever seen together: Earth and a crescent Phobos shining in the evening sky of Mars.

HT Paul Byrne

#science #nature

The image is a composite of five short exposures and 12 long exposures all taken on Sept. 5, 2024, the 4,295th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's mission. An inset in the image shows Phobos on the left and Earth on the right. From the rover's perspective, the inset area would be about half the width of a thumb held at arm's length.

Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

There are less than 10000 Andean condors, the largest birds of prey, left in the world. They live up to 70 years, pair up for life and care for their chicks for years... Absolutely amazing (and very ugly when being face to face with them as happened to us today on a hiking trail 😅) birds!

Today, we had the luck to see four of them (partially very, very) close - three in this video.

#Condor #Nature #Birds #AndeanCondor #Patagonia #PuertoNatales

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

And here the gentleman who decided to block out path today. As you can see, we ended up leaving the trail to walk around him, assuming this was better for everyone, including the nature... (this was not in the National Park but in an area frequented by people and cattle so leaving the trail was OK).

One photo is no zoom, the other 3x...

#Condor #Nature #Birds #AndeanCondor #Patagonia #PuertoNatales

Andean Condor sitting on the side of a trail passing a cliff edge in a beautiful mountain landscape.

Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Today, we had the luck to see four of them (partially very, very) close - three in this video.

#Condor #Nature #Birds #AndeanCondor #Patagonia #PuertoNatales

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