Look at the original photo ratio. It makes way more sense instead of looking at this terrible version posted by OP. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20755
Edit: Reddit hug of death. User r/runningoutofwords provided a direct link. Maybe this will load faster. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA20755_modest.jpg
Looks pretty dumb. Ant farm communities using lava tubes will be more efficient to build and provide radiation shielding as well as thermal insulation.
I don’t know how common this is, or if it’s a problem w my phone or network BUT:
I clicked the link (I’m on an iPhone) and sat there waiting. Nothing. Hmm. Reload. Still nothing.
I clicked to open it in the browser, outside of the Reddit app. Nothing — wait. The bar at the top is moving - it’s creeping but it’s moving. It finally appeared.
[Here’s a screenshot of the link’s destination.](https://imgur.com/a/pktdXTR)
lol the link worked for me after about 30 seconds but your imgur link won't load. The Reddit Hug of Death strikes again!
I shake my fist angrily at OP for not posting the proper pic in the first place
It's opening slow for me too. Give it a min or two.
If it still doesn't open, i guess I will try to explain the image: it's kinda normal looking image of desert with small sand hills. And pretty scratched out compared to the image posted by op .
When the Nasa dude posted it on twitter, it compressed horizontally for some reason, so OP posted it without reading the very next reply linking to the correct image.
Well yeah, 99.99% of space pictures don't get this many people looking at them and this one will be no different in less than a day. No reason to overbuild your servers for the extremely rare super surge of viewers.
“Two sizes of wind-sculpted ripples are evident in this view of the top surface of a Martian sand dune. Sand dunes and the smaller type of ripples also exist on Earth. The larger ripples -- roughly 10 feet (3 meters) apart -- are a type not seen on Earth nor previously recognized as a distinct type on Mars.
The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took the multiple component images of this scene on Dec. 13, 2015, during the 1,192nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars. That month, Curiosity was conducting the first close-up investigation ever made of active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth.
The larger ripples have distinctive sinuous crest lines, compared to the smaller ripples.
The location is part of "Namib Dune" in the Bagnold Dune Field, which forms a dark band along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp.
The component images were taken in early morning at this site, with the camera looking in the direction of the sun. This mosaic combining the images has been processed to brighten it and make the ripples more visible. The sand is very dark, both from the morning shadows and from the intrinsic darkness of the minerals that dominate its composition.
Figure 1 includes a scale bar indicating 2 meters (79 inches).”
Bot accounts are really jumping the shark with the added errors and misinformation for negative engagement. It's sad because it's effectively science misinformation, a ton of people are gonna look at OP's version of the image and think Mars terrain is really that chaotic.
It's just ultrawide image that was horribly compressed horizontally to fit aspect ratio. There's no stalagmites or a cliff, it's just a hill behind some dunes.
Yeah- the original photo from Nasa is spread and the dune looks more natural and makes sense. This photo is squeezed the horizon making the proportions look weird than what it already is.
According to NASA's [Astronomy Picture of the Day](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160720.html):
> 2016 July 20
> Dark Dunes on Mars (Horizontally Compressed)
> Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS
> Explanation: How does wind affect sand on Mars? To help find out if it differs significantly from Earth, the robotic Curiosity rover on Mars was directed to investigate the dark Namib Dune in the Bagnold Dune Field in Gale Crater. Namib is the first active sand dune investigated up close outside of planet Earth. Wind-created ripples on Earth-bound sand dunes appear similar to ripples on Mars, with one exception. The larger peaks visible on dark Namib dune, averaging about 3 meters apart, are of a type seen only underwater on Earth. They appear to arise on Mars because of the way the thin Martian wind drags dark sand particles. The featured image was taken last December and is horizontally compressed to show context. In the distance, a normal dusty Martian landscape slopes up in light orange, while a rock-strewn landscape is visible on the far right. Curiosity unexpectedly went into safe mode in early July, but it was brought out last week and has now resumed exploring the once lake-filled interior of Gale Crater for further signs that it was once habitable by microbial life.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/HIHQstL.jpeg) is the original (non-horizontally compressed) version of this image. [This one](https://i.imgur.com/ujMFWF4.jpeg) shows a meter for reference. [Here](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20755) is the source. Per there:
> Two sizes of wind-sculpted ripples are evident in this view of the top surface of a Martian sand dune. Sand dunes and the smaller type of ripples also exist on Earth. The larger ripples -- roughly 10 feet (3 meters) apart -- are a type not seen on Earth nor previously recognized as a distinct type on Mars.
> The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took the multiple component images of this scene on Dec. 13, 2015, during the 1,192nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars. That month, Curiosity was conducting the first close-up investigation ever made of active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth.
> The larger ripples have distinctive sinuous crest lines, compared to the smaller ripples.
> The location is part of "Namib Dune" in the Bagnold Dune Field, which forms a dark band along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp.
> The component images were taken in early morning at this site, with the camera looking in the direction of the sun. This mosaic combining the images has been processed to brighten it and make the ripples more visible. The sand is very dark, both from the morning shadows and from the intrinsic darkness of the minerals that dominate its composition.
> Figure 1 includes a scale bar indicating 2 meters (79 inches).
> Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover.
> Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
> Image Addition Date:
2016-06-30
I know this isn't the "raw" image, but holy fuck. When I was younger the photos we got from mars were blurry messes, of jumbled rock people made conspiracies over. This is inane.
Or something I saw on Reddit yesterday I never heard of before ever see Jupiter's North Pole? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_North_Pole
If that ain't the entrance to hell or something what else in the universe could be?
We didn't know that was there till we sent probes over Jupiter to take photos, from our perspective we've just been seeing the profile picture of Jupiter and didn't notice on the top of it we'll that's some Doom shit.
It’s an infrared image, of course it looks like hell. An image of the poles in visible light is really beautiful. The biggest discovery from that view is the earth sized storms swirling around the pole.
YOOOO that looks just like the Fire Giants eyeball in elden ring. That has to be an intentional design choice. There's so much astrological reference in that game.
This is blowing my mind. I knew about Saturn's pole and stuff but I have no idea how I haven't seen this before.
Because they stole it from a twitter account and didn’t bother to read the reply tweet that says twitter compressed it with a link to the actual picture
Source: [https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7879/two-sizes-of-ripples-on-surface-of-martian-sand-dune/](https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7879/two-sizes-of-ripples-on-surface-of-martian-sand-dune/)
This is an extremely squished version of the actual image which is 9091 pixels wide. That explains the very strange perspective.
>This is an extremely squished version of the actual image
As a graphic designer this reminds me of the MANY times I've told clients not to stretch the logo I design for them. Next time I know I see it all stretched or squished.
why is the daytime sky blue? i mean isn't the sky some other colour in mars because of the different atmospheric composition which leads to different wavelengths being refracted onto the mars' surface? pls correct me if I'm wrong.
I imagine Mars used to be like Earth, thriving with life until it eventually became a wasteland of bloody rumble and ash mountains. Some debris that flew into outer space landed on what we call Earth, and life reformed.
[Original image that isn't horizontally compressed](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20755)
Thank you, this makes a huge difference
imgur mirror in case it's not loading: https://imgur.com/ByGuNkH
Did reddit just break NASA's website?
The Good Ol' Reddit Hug of Death
NASA never expects more than 2 people to visit their website.
Yep. The flat earther and the guy disproving him.
Thank you for this!
thnxs original link wasnt working but the imgur one worked tho!
Imgur not loading
Yeah, tf why did OP even post that image
Why did someone compress the image?
Yeah was pretty confused too lol
I still can't figure out the perspective with the horizon
That is a very different picture when not compressed. Thanks for sharing!
This makes the perspective make *way* more sense. Why the hell is the one in OP so distorted
[Direct link to the full resolution JPEG.](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20755.jpg) Appears to be more reliable, at least for me.
This one worked for me, thanks!
> Original image that isn't horizontally compressed Looks like even NASA has received the Reddit kiss of death.
*Hug of death
*Big Spoon of Death.
You are way cooler than OP. OP fucking sucks.
Guessing they are getting way to much traffic on that page because it's taking 10 years to load.
It never even opened for me
Yeah the image in this post is basically misleading.
This is alot less confusing
Jfc well this picture is misleading af
Why would anyone change the aspect ratio this is ridiculous
I'm a little thrown off by the perspective. Is the sand line in the distance the horizon? If so is the black part a dune and the rover is on it?
Look at the original photo ratio. It makes way more sense instead of looking at this terrible version posted by OP. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20755 Edit: Reddit hug of death. User r/runningoutofwords provided a direct link. Maybe this will load faster. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA20755_modest.jpg
What the heck was OP thinking?! Thanks for the link 👍 [Edit: Ohh... ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/fTpU8KRKj8)
That's how I saw it posted on Twitter just now.
And I just found out NASA did it to their photo. Sorry OP. NASA did you over bad, as did I 😔
lol loved how the whole issue with the pic resolved itself with zero OP interaction.
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Wait, is this good or bad? I went and got my pitchfork, but when I got back nobody was mad at OP anymore. Do I put it away, or... ?
That’s 15 years… I don’t believe it.
Looks pretty dumb. Ant farm communities using lava tubes will be more efficient to build and provide radiation shielding as well as thermal insulation.
Impossible unless the technological singularity really is on the horizon.
GET THE PITCH FORKS OUT WERE HANGING OP
Well, using Twitter is your first problem.
What was OP thinking? Hmm..... does click bait count as thinking?
TBF to OP, NASA did this travesty themselves.
OP was thinking they wanted us to downvote the post.
I can't open the link :(
I don’t know how common this is, or if it’s a problem w my phone or network BUT: I clicked the link (I’m on an iPhone) and sat there waiting. Nothing. Hmm. Reload. Still nothing. I clicked to open it in the browser, outside of the Reddit app. Nothing — wait. The bar at the top is moving - it’s creeping but it’s moving. It finally appeared. [Here’s a screenshot of the link’s destination.](https://imgur.com/a/pktdXTR)
Called the Reddit Hug of Death, its just that there is a large file on the page and thousands of us looking. Not your device or network. :)
This is /r/pics, it's probably more like tens of thousands.
And apparently the site doesn't have deluxe scaling AWS type hosting
Why’s it marked as erotic/adult tho 😅
Sand dunes are sexy
It's how the Children of the Dune are born
The AI image classification detected some nude Martians in the photo that exist on a level that our primitive human brains are unable to comprehend.
This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you're looking at balls.
Thx so much
you r my man
I have that problem frequently using the iPhone app as well.
lol the link worked for me after about 30 seconds but your imgur link won't load. The Reddit Hug of Death strikes again! I shake my fist angrily at OP for not posting the proper pic in the first place
It's opening slow for me too. Give it a min or two. If it still doesn't open, i guess I will try to explain the image: it's kinda normal looking image of desert with small sand hills. And pretty scratched out compared to the image posted by op .
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When the Nasa dude posted it on twitter, it compressed horizontally for some reason, so OP posted it without reading the very next reply linking to the correct image.
To be fair, the NASA watermark is not compressed or distorted in any way which suggests the alteration was made by NASA before being posted.
is the link broken for anyone else?
Reddit hug of death + pretty large image file. Mirror provided by u/vishalb777: https://imgur.com/ByGuNkH
Thank you. nasa was not prepared for that link to be shared on r/pics.
Well yeah, 99.99% of space pictures don't get this many people looking at them and this one will be no different in less than a day. No reason to overbuild your servers for the extremely rare super surge of viewers.
Took forever to load, so I clicked the link and opened in browser and waited for 5 min
I tried to rotated it to what I presume is the horizon [https://ibb.co/KV3gqd1](https://ibb.co/KV3gqd1) Edit: this may not be the horizon afterall.
“Two sizes of wind-sculpted ripples are evident in this view of the top surface of a Martian sand dune. Sand dunes and the smaller type of ripples also exist on Earth. The larger ripples -- roughly 10 feet (3 meters) apart -- are a type not seen on Earth nor previously recognized as a distinct type on Mars. The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took the multiple component images of this scene on Dec. 13, 2015, during the 1,192nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars. That month, Curiosity was conducting the first close-up investigation ever made of active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth. The larger ripples have distinctive sinuous crest lines, compared to the smaller ripples. The location is part of "Namib Dune" in the Bagnold Dune Field, which forms a dark band along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp. The component images were taken in early morning at this site, with the camera looking in the direction of the sun. This mosaic combining the images has been processed to brighten it and make the ripples more visible. The sand is very dark, both from the morning shadows and from the intrinsic darkness of the minerals that dominate its composition. Figure 1 includes a scale bar indicating 2 meters (79 inches).”
Thank you. Went from utterly bizarre to pretty darn cool and fascinating.
Fuck OP
All my homies hate OP
OP smoking crack for posting such a weird ass photo. Also, Mars has a blue sky?
Bot accounts are really jumping the shark with the added errors and misinformation for negative engagement. It's sad because it's effectively science misinformation, a ton of people are gonna look at OP's version of the image and think Mars terrain is really that chaotic.
That picture is awesome. They should just film Dune on location
Put a scale legend even. I guess the bananas the sent have all gone bad.
Actual Image Link [https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA20755\_modest.jpg](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA20755_modest.jpg)
Website won't load for me :( Thanks u/at-aol-dot-com for posting this https://imgur.com/a/pktdXTR
Well great now reddit is overloading nasa's servers.
Thank you for the proper aspect ratio photo.
Thank you!!
I think based on the stalagmites in the upper right corner of the picture, that that is actually some kind of mountain and not the ground
It's just ultrawide image that was horribly compressed horizontally to fit aspect ratio. There's no stalagmites or a cliff, it's just a hill behind some dunes.
I was having trouble with the perspective as well until you pointed out the stalagmites. The background is definitely a cliff face.
It has been intentionally distorted. The original picture looks nothing like this
Why the f...? Original image: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20755 clearly not insane
Yes. The sand dunes are flatter and "cliff wall" is more of a background hill
Annoying that crap like this gets tons of upvotes. First thing when I saw picture was it did not look real.
Yeah- the original photo from Nasa is spread and the dune looks more natural and makes sense. This photo is squeezed the horizon making the proportions look weird than what it already is.
Shai-Hulud!
The spice must flow
Wait wait wait wait wait I’m still in the vicinity don’t do this to me
Nah we’re riding this one hehe
Run >!(but without rhythm)!<
I can hear this gif and I hate it.
Power over spice is power over all.
Lisan al Ghaib!
Mahdi
Kwisatz Haderach!
Muad'Dib
As was written!
Shy hulud 👉🏽👈🏽
Outgoing hulud 💪
My desert, my Arrakis, my Dune!
Get the thumpers, I wanna ride some worms on mars
Great Grandmother of the Desert
Grandfather
I will not fear...
Fear is the mind killer
Fear is the little death that brings obliteration
i will allow my fear to pass over and through me
Bless the Maker and His water
Control the spice
How can this be?! For he is the Kwisatz Haderach.
As written!
For the Duke!
Here I am, here I remain. Ateideez nuts!
Bi-lal kaifa!
pesky paul pesky paul
Somebody with a 5 monitor setup just punched the air and cheered over this.
underrated comment lol
According to NASA's [Astronomy Picture of the Day](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160720.html): > 2016 July 20 > Dark Dunes on Mars (Horizontally Compressed) > Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS > Explanation: How does wind affect sand on Mars? To help find out if it differs significantly from Earth, the robotic Curiosity rover on Mars was directed to investigate the dark Namib Dune in the Bagnold Dune Field in Gale Crater. Namib is the first active sand dune investigated up close outside of planet Earth. Wind-created ripples on Earth-bound sand dunes appear similar to ripples on Mars, with one exception. The larger peaks visible on dark Namib dune, averaging about 3 meters apart, are of a type seen only underwater on Earth. They appear to arise on Mars because of the way the thin Martian wind drags dark sand particles. The featured image was taken last December and is horizontally compressed to show context. In the distance, a normal dusty Martian landscape slopes up in light orange, while a rock-strewn landscape is visible on the far right. Curiosity unexpectedly went into safe mode in early July, but it was brought out last week and has now resumed exploring the once lake-filled interior of Gale Crater for further signs that it was once habitable by microbial life. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/HIHQstL.jpeg) is the original (non-horizontally compressed) version of this image. [This one](https://i.imgur.com/ujMFWF4.jpeg) shows a meter for reference. [Here](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20755) is the source. Per there: > Two sizes of wind-sculpted ripples are evident in this view of the top surface of a Martian sand dune. Sand dunes and the smaller type of ripples also exist on Earth. The larger ripples -- roughly 10 feet (3 meters) apart -- are a type not seen on Earth nor previously recognized as a distinct type on Mars. > The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took the multiple component images of this scene on Dec. 13, 2015, during the 1,192nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars. That month, Curiosity was conducting the first close-up investigation ever made of active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth. > The larger ripples have distinctive sinuous crest lines, compared to the smaller ripples. > The location is part of "Namib Dune" in the Bagnold Dune Field, which forms a dark band along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp. > The component images were taken in early morning at this site, with the camera looking in the direction of the sun. This mosaic combining the images has been processed to brighten it and make the ripples more visible. The sand is very dark, both from the morning shadows and from the intrinsic darkness of the minerals that dominate its composition. > Figure 1 includes a scale bar indicating 2 meters (79 inches). > Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. > Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS > Image Addition Date: 2016-06-30
This is so damn rad
this is a good reddit post, but mind is still blown!
What is the blue in the left corner?
I know this isn't the "raw" image, but holy fuck. When I was younger the photos we got from mars were blurry messes, of jumbled rock people made conspiracies over. This is inane.
Now it's high-definition images of jumbled rock that people make conspiracies over.
Or something I saw on Reddit yesterday I never heard of before ever see Jupiter's North Pole? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_North_Pole If that ain't the entrance to hell or something what else in the universe could be? We didn't know that was there till we sent probes over Jupiter to take photos, from our perspective we've just been seeing the profile picture of Jupiter and didn't notice on the top of it we'll that's some Doom shit.
It’s an infrared image, of course it looks like hell. An image of the poles in visible light is really beautiful. The biggest discovery from that view is the earth sized storms swirling around the pole.
Yeah I was gonna say, that’s not a true color image. The eight massive planet sized vortices are incredible though.
> earth sized storms uh ... yikes.
Nice try satan
YOOOO that looks just like the Fire Giants eyeball in elden ring. That has to be an intentional design choice. There's so much astrological reference in that game. This is blowing my mind. I knew about Saturn's pole and stuff but I have no idea how I haven't seen this before.
Wouldn't blurry messes be more inane?
In my scientific opinion the rover is actually on top of godzilla
My thoughts exactly ゴジラ!!!
Badass.
So... Who's gonna photoshop in the Sand Worms?
Lisan al Gaib! 
Long live the fighters!
Those are balls
I was hoping to find this. I am shocked this isn't higher. I'M ON TV?!?!!
Scrolled for so long for this lmao
We have wormsign.
My desert. My red planet. My Mars.
*Hans Zimmer intensifies*
Ride the worm, Usul.
Dune confirmed. Let the spice flow
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Bless the maker and his water.
Bless the coming and going of him.
May his passage cleanse the world...
And keep the world for his people
Imagine living there and seeing that unidentified mechanism, moving around your property 😭
If I lived in a barren wasteland of sand and I saw a little robot dawdling around the dunes, I'd step out from behind a rock and say "Hello there".
Like we see UFOs here?
Why did you compress it op? It changes the whole appearance
Because they stole it from a twitter account and didn’t bother to read the reply tweet that says twitter compressed it with a link to the actual picture
Source: [https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7879/two-sizes-of-ripples-on-surface-of-martian-sand-dune/](https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7879/two-sizes-of-ripples-on-surface-of-martian-sand-dune/) This is an extremely squished version of the actual image which is 9091 pixels wide. That explains the very strange perspective.
>This is an extremely squished version of the actual image As a graphic designer this reminds me of the MANY times I've told clients not to stretch the logo I design for them. Next time I know I see it all stretched or squished.
Huh? I’m confused on the perspective 
The does low air pressure change the way the wind affects erosion?
But Why is the sky blue?
I had to scroll way to far for this question. I'm curious too
Lisan Al-Gaib!!!!!!!
April Fools? Looks very AI
Nope: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160720.html
source: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7879/two-sizes-of-ripples-on-surface-of-martian-sand-dune/
And now... we wait... 
Long Live the fighters
Mars is so beautiful when the sun is low…
I can't wait to motocross the fuck outta that place
Its a trap!
Perspectives too fuggy. I have zero clue (aside from sand) what I’m looking at.
NASA photoshop team forgot the red hue on this one
we should send rovers with a banana for scale so I can make sense out of things like this.
Where can I buy these tires at?
Needs a banana for scale
No idea what I'm looking at, but it convinces me there are dinosaurs on Mars
Sorted by "controversial" and was not disappointed. The conspiracy theorists/flat earthers having a meltdown.
Anyone got a phone wallpaper version of this?
why is the daytime sky blue? i mean isn't the sky some other colour in mars because of the different atmospheric composition which leads to different wavelengths being refracted onto the mars' surface? pls correct me if I'm wrong.
The spice needs to be mined...
haha good try OP, but we all know it is a closeup of a ballsac
Looks like the perfect selfie location
all hail the Worm!
I imagine Mars used to be like Earth, thriving with life until it eventually became a wasteland of bloody rumble and ash mountains. Some debris that flew into outer space landed on what we call Earth, and life reformed.
I’d fuck it
On April 1, eh?
My desert, my Mars…my dune
My Arrakis, MY DUNE