Rosetta flys by mars

[Jerry_111]

..taking what i believe is the first picture taken of the planet with the spaceprobe in the picture itself:

http://www.esa.int/images/CIVA_Mars_30_H.jpg

it's like looking out the car window and seeing.. mars!

official source: http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=I&mission=Rosetta&single=y&start=4&size=b

 

[mindless_moder]

looks like a screenshot from doom.

 

[Dekstar]

"And to your left you see the red planet. Not many people know this, but Chuck Norris actually made the planet red by staining it with the blood of its now extinct inhabitants."

 

[Ren.182]

Epic.

 

[Krynn72]

looks like bad bad cg

 

[mindless_moder]

"And to your left you see the red planet. Not many people know this, but Chuck Norris actually made the planet red by staining it with the blood OF its now extinct inhabitants."

fixed

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Sweetness.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Looks like a giant meringue.

Mmmmm, meringue.

 

[Jerry_111]

it aint cgi. it's on the official ESA website (unless they hoaxed it -- oh noes!)

 

[<RJMC>]

looks like a screenshot from doom.

qft

 

[Bad^Hat]

No it doesn't.

Now it does.

 

[tehsolace]

No it doesn't.

*darker image*

Now it does.

ROFL so very very true.

 

[hungryduck]

cool....

 

[DEATHMASTER]

heeeeey...its not red D:

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

"And to your left you see the red planet. Not many people know this, but Chuck Norris actually made the planet red by staining it with the blood of its now extinct inhabitants."

 

[Reginald]

looks like bad bad cg

Just shows that bad bad CGI is often the most accurate.

 

[Boogymanx]

It really does look like the DooM 3 Engine.

That's 1000 KM away? Holy shit, Mars is huge!

 

[Beerdude26]

It really does look like the DooM 3 Engine.

That's 1000 KM away? Holy shit, Mars is huge!

And still only 25% the size of earth.

 

[ailevation]

If the core was just spinning without the other layers on top... it's gravity would be so great that you'd be flattened thinner than a piece of paper if you were to try to stand on it.