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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2024 March 23   
      
                    Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited   
                        HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA   
      
      Explanation: This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's   
      HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in   
      southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE   
      image colors, to the human eye the area would probably look grey or a   
      little reddish. But human eyes have not gazed across this terrain,   
      unless you count the eyes of NASA astronauts in the scifi novel The   
      Martian by Andy Weir. The novel chronicles the adventures of Mark   
      Watney, an astronaut stranded at the fictional Mars mission Ares 3   
      landing site corresponding to the coordinates of this cropped HiRISE   
      frame. For scale Watney's 6-meter-diameter habitat at the site would be   
      about 1/10th the diameter of the large crater. Of course, the Ares 3   
      landing coordinates are only about 800 kilometers north of the (real   
      life) Carl Sagan Memorial Station, the 1997 Pathfinder landing site.   
      
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