Daylight on Mars

[purplecat]

I have no idea why I am so completely mind-blown by the idea that there is daylight on Mars because, well, duh! - maybe it is growing up with all those pictures of the moon-landing against a dark sky. But I am completely mindblown by the idea that there is daylight on Mars.



Image from NASA, obviously.

Comments

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

Ooh, it's funny to look at it, I don't know why either, I think I just imagine planet = in space, space = dark, therefore planet = dark.

[purplecat]

Exactly. Planets obviously equal dark somewhere in my mind despite that being nonsense.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

The Clangers's planet is dark, therefore all planets are dark. All real planets, anyway. Captain Kirk kept visiting places with lurid red or green or pink skies, but that wasn't real, not like the planet the Clangers lived on.

At least, that's the best explanation I can come up with for the fact that when I hear "planet," I think of something grey, with craters, against a dark black sky. Oliver Postgate has much to answer for.

[purplecat]

Unnaccountably I was large unaware of the Clangers until I went to university (at least as far as I'm aware - I suppose it's possible there was some deep traumatic Clangers related experience that I have suppressed - though I was traumatised by Trumpton and I still recall the show).

At any rate I do not think, in my case, that Oliver Postgate is to blame. I think daniel_saunders may have put his finger on it when he pointed out it looks awfully like an alien planet from Doctor Who or Blakes' 7 and so, clearly, it must be fake.