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NASA Earth
NASA Earth@NASAEarth·
Both Earth and Mars have been shaped by volcanic activity, creating some similar geologic features on each planet. One of these images shows Earth and the other shows Mars. Can you tell which is which? 🤔
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NASA Earth
NASA Earth@NASAEarth·
This is Earth! Landsat 8 captured this image of the San Francisco Volcanic Field in northern Arizona. This area has scoria cones, lava flows, and other features that are found on other worlds like Mars. @nasa has even used this area for astronaut geology training!
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Moment Pro Camera
Moment Pro Camera@MomentProCamera·
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Cosmology Fact Check
Cosmology Fact Check@GaryNicholls52·
@NASAEarth Or Earth, Mars and our Moon have all been subject to the effects of electricity/plasma during a solar nova type event, and likely such events are cyclical and will occur again.
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Paco García - 𝕏 -@PacooGarcia·
@NASAEarth This can't be a serious question. It's pretty easy to tell the difference. Mars (left pic) has lots of recent craters due to it's thinner atmosphere.
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Nebula Chaser
Nebula Chaser@seahunter·
@NASAEarth Left is Mars, right is Earth. Either way both look like my backyard after a rough summer.
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Signal.Archive.Lab
Signal.Archive.Lab@Signal_Archive·
Wow, these places look super similar, right? 🌋🟠🌎 One photo is from Arizona's San Francisco Volcanic Field (Earth – taken by Landsat 8) and the other is Ulysses Colles on Mars (captured by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) . 🚀🛰️ Both show classic scoria cones – small, steep volcanic hills made from explosive eruptions that throw out cinders and lava fragments . 🔥 The shapes form in almost the same way on both planets, even though Mars has much lower gravity and almost no air pressure . 🌎→🟠 Fun fact: the Arizona site is so Mars-like that NASA uses it to train astronauts and test gear before real Red Planet missions! 🚀👨‍🚀 Cool how studying one world helps us understand another, isn't it? 🌌💫✨
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Michel Monkam
Michel Monkam@roland268381·
@NASAEarth In first order, it's joke 🙂 I could say, the left image is "Mars", due (his color), and other "Earth". But when I analyse the right, where we can see it actually in earth 🤔 The question of time the capture image can be posed !! Reason I say it's Joke 🙃.
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George Kent Colbath
George Kent Colbath@gkcgeoscience·
@NASAEarth @NASASolarSystem You picked SP Crater here in Northern Arizona (on the right). SP is featured in introductory textbooks. Maybe go for something more obscure next time.
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Eric Cromwell
Eric Cromwell@PrideOfHumility·
@NASAEarth @NASAMars Since Earth has no real atmosphere Im guessing that's the one with all the craters and Mars is the one with the train station
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David J Ritter
David J Ritter@blucat2·
@NASAEarth I'm guessing that the left one is Mars, because it's red. Also the right one seems to have a big black outgassing, which wouldn't happen on Mars right now.
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D H@DH1786·
@NASAEarth ahhh yes, the impact craters of Southern Ohio!
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ahmed mowafy
ahmed mowafy@MowafyYous56637·
@NASAEarth Earth and Mars share the same volcanic past. But while Earth let life take root, Mars froze in time. Today, Mars is a natural archive — a silent witness to the chemistry that might have sparked the first cell. 🪨🔥
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Jerry Winslow
Jerry Winslow@JerryWinslow·
@NASAEarth That’s what Iran will look like with President Trump is finished along with Israel!
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Bartosz
Bartosz@BartoszEvin·
@NASAEarth Do you know how the "pyramids" were created just very next to some craters on Mars? It looks impossible that a pile of rocks is formed after the impact.
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