APOD: 2019 November 1 - The Day After Mars

Good R.E.D. Friday Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and a very interesting image of the Comet known as "Comet Siding Spring". As I perused a number of video clips about this comet, but none were actual, most were animated... That said, I found the one I included here that seemed to be the most technically descriptive and so I am sharing it here... Note that this is also an animation, but one commissioned by NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Center just before the Comet passed by Planet Mars. https://youtu.be/FG4KsatjFeI



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Good RED Friday and very cool

Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) on Friday, November 1, 2019 entitled "The Day After Mars."
Since Thursday afternoon or so I have been dealing with a head cold which has drained me.

Image: The Day After Mars - Image Credit & Copyright - Rolando Ligustri (CARA Project, CAST)
"Explanation: October 31, 1938 was the day after Martians encountered planet Earth, and everything was calm. Reports of the invasion were revealed to be part of a Halloween radio drama, the now famous broadcast based on H.G. Wells' scifi novel War of the Worlds. On Mars October 20, 2014 was calm too, the day after its close encounter with Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1). Not a hoax, this comet really did come within 86,700 miles or so of Mars, about 1/3 the Earth-Moon distance. Earth's spacecraft and rovers in Mars orbit and on the surface reported no ill effects though, and had a ringside seat as a visitor from the outer solar system passed by. Spanning over 2 degrees against stars of the constellation Ophiuchus, this colorful telescopic snapshot captures our view of Mars on the day after. Bluish star 51 Ophiuchi is at the upper right and the comet is just emerging from the Red Planet's bright glare."

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David Bowie – Life On Mars? (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo

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