Lockdown Update Day 339

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These are @NASAPersevere's first color images of the surface of Mars. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/xCaVjQRZ3a

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) February 19, 2021

(Apparently original tweet was a fake, alas. This one should be genuine.)

(The Russians went to Venus in 1981/82, video - including sound - here. Via this tweet.)

And speaking of other planets...

A thing a lot of people don't seem to be aware of is that the proportion of astronomers who believe there is alien life of some sort in the universe is almost 100%. It's just the proportion who think they've *dropped by* that's almost 0.

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) February 19, 2021