I enjoy armchair space geocaching. Finding weird things people have found in NASA photos of Mars, and then trying to locate precise longitude/latitude for them in Google Earth (Mars
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And there's these mysterious bright spots on Ceres that the Dawn probe is investigating, which will probably turn out to be ice or something, but for now we can suggest more wacky explanations like they're solar panel arrays for a long-abandoned alien base.
A cool thing in Google Earth (Mars) is this natural land bridge. Tartarus Colles collapsed lava tube forming natural bridge http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_001420_2045 Google Earth (Mars): 24.484 -171.865 When I win the lottery I'll finance a mission to Mars to send a small robot probe rolling across that bridge, then have it jump up and down on the bridge like Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. "Strong bridge! Strong bridge! Strong - AIEEEEEEEEE!" Then it can bungee-jump over the side to look for Martian trolls beneath the bridge.
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And there's these mysterious bright spots on Ceres that the Dawn probe is investigating, which will probably turn out to be ice or something, but for now we can suggest more wacky explanations like they're solar panel arrays for a long-abandoned alien base.
A cool thing in Google Earth (Mars) is this natural land bridge.
Tartarus Colles
collapsed lava tube forming natural bridge
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_001420_2045
Google Earth (Mars): 24.484 -171.865
When I win the lottery I'll finance a mission to Mars to send a small robot probe rolling across that bridge, then have it jump up and down on the bridge like Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. "Strong bridge! Strong bridge! Strong - AIEEEEEEEEE!"
Then it can bungee-jump over the side to look for Martian trolls beneath the bridge.
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Have you found the Ass on Mars yet?
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The Mars Face is at 40.747503 N 9.462809 W
So the Mars Ass would be at the antipodes 40.747503 S 170.537191 E
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