Credit & Copyright: Jack Sutton
Explanation:
Is this asteroid Arrokoth or a potato?
Perhaps, after all the data was beamed back to Earth from NASA's
robotic New Horizons spacecraft, the featured high resolution image
of
asteroid Arrokoth was constructed.
Perhaps, alternatively, the featured image is of a
potato.
Let's
consider
some facts.
Arrokoth is the most
distant
asteroid ever visited and a surviving remnant of the early years of
our Solar System.
A potato is a
root vegetable
that you can eat.
Happy
April Fool's Day
from the folks at APOD!
Although
asteroid Arrokoth may look like a potato,
in fact very much like the featured potato,
Arrokoth (formerly known as
Ultima Thule)
is about 200,000 times wider and much harder to eat.
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