{"id":17693,"date":"2009-09-09T06:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17693"},"modified":"2017-07-25T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T11:45:33","slug":"can-we-interest-you-in-some-land-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/can-we-interest-you-in-some-land-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Interest You In Some Land … On Mars?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s say you’re thinking about investing in land. And taking the really, really long view.<\/p>\n

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Could I interest you in some lovely backcountry acreage with canyon-like features<\/a>? Or some prairie-flat plains dotted with craters<\/a>? Or maybe some chloride salt beds<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Could I interest you, to put it directly, in Mars?<\/p>\n

Okay, nobody’s buying off-world real estate yet (outside of science fiction<\/a> or some pretty clever entrepreneurs), but NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has announced the release of thousands of high-definition photographs<\/a> of the Red Planet’s surface.<\/p>\n

It’s some pretty spectacular viewing, too, courtesy of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. According to JPL’s website, “Each full image from HiRISE covers a strip of Martian ground 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) wide, about two to four times that long, showing details as small as 1 meter, or yard, across.”<\/p>\n

We’re still years away from a manned Mars mission, of course, and decades (if that) away from the average earthling getting a chance to set foot on our neighboring planet. But with these gorgeous photos available, there’s just a little temptation to pick out a spot for some far-future vacation, just in case.<\/p>\n

For our part, the Meridiani Planum Southern Boundary<\/a> looks like a lovely place to park a yurt and spend a few weeks hiking and sightseeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s say you’re thinking about investing in land. And taking the really, really long view. Could I interest you in some lovely backcountry acreage with canyon-like features? Or some prairie-flat plains dotted with craters? Or maybe some chloride salt beds? Could I interest you, to put it directly, in Mars? Okay, nobody’s buying off-world real … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}