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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like Cookie Monster's eyes...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's so weird that Mars has two suns.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

And for them to both be eclipsing at the same time, crazy odds... or, dare I say it, astronomical

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Planet shaming? Moon shaming? Planetism? When will this bigotry end? 😢

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's up with that wonky form? Is Phobos not a sphere? Has it let itself go since his wife left? Is it a "special" moon?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Phobos and Deimos, Mars' moons, are captured asteroids and look like lumpy potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! I didn't know that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Captured by Mars eh? Would that make them prisoners of war?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nah, our moon is exceptionally dull. Here we are, the only dot in the sunbeam that's not black or white, and our sole natural satellite is flat, dark, and powder-gray. Like worn asphalt.

And it's tide-locked! We don't even get to see all of it. Like if Mars's twin enormous boulders always looked like cardboard cut-outs instead of tumbling majestically over the years. Thank goodness for all this water and life and crap, or we'd be a C-tier heavenly body.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

The fact that our moon is almost identical in size compared to our sun from our perspective is something exceptional in heavenly bodies! Give it some merit!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Our moon is actually pretty big compared to the planet’s size. It’s rather rare actually

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Alexa, turn on the living room lights."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If she thinks Phobos' eclipse is wonky then she should see Deimos'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thought it was a trump comment the way that is written.