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OT: NASA Puts Rover on Mars

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NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

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NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

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That's incredible.

Thanks for that Matt.
 

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sweet pic. that's a rep! oh, wait.
can I report the post instead?
 
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NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

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Let's finish that warp drive and send a rover there!
 

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NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

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That is so fucking awesome.
 

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NASA announced that it has discovered the first "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars. While the planet's officially called Kepler 16b, astronomers are already referring to it as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, which also had two suns (NASA even invited John Knoll of Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects company behind Star Wars, to the announcement).

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Can you imagine being on that planet witnessing a solar-solar eclipse? :thumb:
 

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There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.

Should have specified, flowing water. Still, this is all fascinating. Can't wait for the next Mars landing so we can get a glimpse into what's under the surface.
 

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There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.
It evaporated into the atmosphere and then precipitated as snow/ice to the poles. Once in a permanent solid state, it had nowhere to go. The sun's energy level on Mars probably isn't strong enough to melt/evaporate the polar ice into a liquid/gaseous state. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
 
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It evaporated into the atmosphere and then precipitated as snow/ice to the poles. Once in a permanent solid state, it had nowhere to go. The sun's energy level on Mars probably isn't strong enough to melt/evaporate the polar ice into a liquid/gaseous state. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I figured it was either that or some flow issue, but the latter seemed to require too much coincidence. Perhaps we should induce global warming on Mars. :D
 

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There still is water on Mars. It's just frozen. What's interesting to me is that it all migrated to the caps.

Frozen on Mars? Uh... it's a desert. Deserts are hot. And people think this guy knows stuff about science.

So, on this Tatoon planet, did we find any Ewoks or anything?
 
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