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Mars photographed during part of its rotation from Melbourne, Australia on March 8. The bright “cap” at top is Hellas, now covered in wintertime frost and clouds. The smaller oval at bottom is the north polar cap. Syrtis Major is the dark Africa-shaped feature jutting toward center. Credit: Maurice Valimberti
Weather keeps the Earth lively. Seeing weather on other planets through a telescope we sense a kinship between our own volatile world and the fluttering image in the eyepiece. With the April 8 opposition of Mars rapidly approaching, you won’t want to miss a striking meteorological happening right now on the Red Planet. (…)
Read the rest of Till Hellas Freezes Over – See Frost and Clouds in Mars’ Largest Crater (773 words)
© Bob King for Universe Today, 2014. |
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