Water on Mars: photographic proof!

[Jacob Orlove]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html

If you like astronomy or cool pictures, that site is great. Some of the stuff in the archives is just insane, like this: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050322.html

[leviat]

Verbal Warning for bad humor.

... withdrawn because I actually snorted out load at it.

[Jacob Orlove]

I would have put it in humor, but since that second pic is real, I felt this was a better spot. Plus, what's the point of a surprise link if it's already in the humor forum? :p

[Godot]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000204.html

Its not funny or very impressive but its my image from the data I spent like 3 years working on so I had to pimp it.

[Bram]

What do you mean your image? You do stuff like this for work? How savage!

[Godot]

What do you mean your image? You do stuff like this for work? How savage!

Yeah, Im TMDs resident Astrophysicist I guess.  The image is a Chandra X-ray Telescope observation of the Orion Nebula.  I spent my last three years of undergrad doing research on it.  I did all the data reduction and pretty picture making(undergrad data slave 4L) and then did my own study on it for my thesis.  It was my advisors data, but since I did so much more actual work with it its kinda my baby.

[Bram]

Let me just repeat how incredibly savage I think that is. It's what I wanted to grow up to do.