APOD: 2021 March 5 - A Little Like Mars

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Today's Astronomy Digitally Stitched Planet projection of the Day (ADSPPOD) for Friday, March 5, 2021 entitled "A Little Like Mars" 'which is actually a digitally stitched little planet projection of earth :-)

It seems the folks at APOD may be getting antsy since they are relying on stitched-together images from scenes of earth with a stitched-together backdrop of a section of the heavens created by the LORD.

The wonders of the heavens bring glory to the LORD for all who have eyes to see :-)

Image: A Little Like Mars Image Credit & Copyright -Robert Barsa


ADSPPOD background
"Explanation: The surface of this planet looks a little like Mars. It's really planet Earth though. In a digitally stitched little planet projection, the 360 degree mosaic was captured near San Pedro in the Chilean Atacama desert. Telescopes in domes on the horizon are taking advantage of the arid region's famously dark, clear nights. Taken in early December, a magnificent Milky Way arcs above the horizon for almost 180 degrees around the little planet with Orion prominent in the southern sky. A familiar constellation upside down for northern hemisphere skygazers, Orion shares that southern December night almost opposite the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. But the Red Planet itself is the brightest yellowish celestial beacon in this little planet sky."

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Great pic! I never really thought about it, but naturally Orion would be upside down from south of the Equator, and Sirius is right of Orion with Aldebaron and the Pleiades to the left, instead of vice versa from our perspective. At first I thought the image had been reversed, then I finally tumbled to it. You are declared the educator of the day, Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!

A new angle to appreciate the heavens -- Happy Friday.