Astronomy Picture of the Day
April 1, 2012

El Dorado
El Dorado

Credits: NASA/JPL/Cornell/USGS - MER Spirit - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF

"...There are places where vast accumulations of sand, weighing millions of tons, move inexorably, in regular formation, over the surface of the country: growing, retaining their shape, even breeding, in a manner which, by its grotesque imitation of life, is vaguely disturbing to an imaginative mind..."

Ralph Alger Bagnold (1896 - 1990)

 

 

The Sun shines over the El Dorado Dunefield (a small dunefield located near Husband HillGusev Crater - Mars) but it is not a real Sun. It is just a "light effect", added on an authentic NASA's - Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit picture. A small gift from our Team to a Robotic Rover which, we believe, deeply contributed to the Human Understanding of things that, however, lie way beyond our capacity to understand...


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