# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNspBphjAil
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11685072-natgeo-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/12f85ab37d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-04-15T18:58:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photos by babaktafreshi and nasa / Mars on Earth. It's incredible how some landscapes on Earth resemble the surface of our neighboring planet. I made this panorama of Chile’s Atacama Desert as the rising moon gently shone on this extremely dry environment. Swipe to compare this with a recent 360 panorama from the red planet, as seen by nasa rover Perseverance, which landed in February. This site was once an ancient lake 3.5 billion years ago, when Mars had a thicker atmosphere and was perhaps habitable. For more astronomy and space stories follow me babaktafreshi.

#twanight #mars #earth #perserverance #atacama

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earth, atacama, mars, twanight, perserverance

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