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[some_stars]

You might think that with Livejournal down, and thus (for my current purposes) fandom also down, I would get some work done, but actually I just spent four hours browsing NASA's website and reading about Mars rovers and space telescopes and solar system probes. Well, first I spent almost an hour looking at pictures from the Mars rovers, then I started surfing around their questionably-designed website.

Anyway now I am consumed with the excitement/awe/creeping existential terror that always comes upon me when I read about nonfictional outer space. The giant Martian panoramas in particular are really getting to me, because Mars is so much like Earth, except much bigger, (I DON'T EVEN KNOW, Y'ALL) and pretty much all the same, and completely dead. So awesome! So horrifying!

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[ide_cyan]

Mars is smaller than Earth. Maybe it seems bigger because there are no oceans to break up the landmass surface percentage?

[some_stars]

this changes everything

I have no idea how I reached this point in my life without correcting this belief. /o\

[phosfate]

Lower gravity, too. Possibly why it can't hold its water and atmosphere.