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Sunset ~ double-cloudburst ~ back-lit
Summer '17 ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Hometown ~ Coral Springs, Florida
[It felt other-worldly... like roving across Mars! lol]
(two more photos 'from this night' in the comments)
Mars (Ares) with Saturn and AntAres in the constellation of Scorpion. Just before the badweather, again and again...
Recorded close to the opposition (unfortunately I had not been able to process so far).
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut filter. 4000 frames stacked. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, Fitswork and PixInsight.
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Mars rover from my Mars Research Bio-Dome entry into the Out of This World Space Builds Competition.
See more here:
ideas.lego.com/challenges/3a0cb2a7-395f-400c-8e0b-c342804...
I'm a bit late to the #Mars party, but I did manage to get a Mars opposition shot earlier tonight. This is the closest Mars has been to Earth since 2003, and skywatchers around the world have been able to easily see the planet, in all its glory.
It was much cloudier than I would have preferred, and the persistent layer of clouds muted the red from the red planet. The image does effectively make the point that Mars is very bright, bright enough to not only shine through the clouds, but it is also the brightest thing in the sky looking toward the southeast.
This is the first time in several months I've been back to "Cuki." The masts have been removed, and there is finally a sign instructing people to not use the boat as a jungle gym. And, if you look closely, there is someone near the water behind the boat. I didn't know anyone else was out there with me (it's really very dark) and that person managed to give me quite a start when they jogged by.
One side note: I was hoping to catch Mars low enough and clear enough to get some reflection off the water (see: John Kraus's shot from last night) but that just wasn't happening.
(Photo: me)
Location: Düsseldorf (Germany)
Date: June 08, 2016.
Seeing: 7 / 10
Celestron 11 on Celestron AVX mount
Captured at 3200mm focal lenght
ZWO ASI 224mc camera
ZWO ADC (atmospheric dispersion corrector)
Processed using AS!2, Fitswork & PS CS5/6
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There are places on planet Earth that make you feel like you have traveled to Mars. This happens to be one of them. This is where NASA trains its astronauts for Mars landings.
Join me on an incredible adventure exploring the extraterrestrial landscapes of Utah.
As Mars exploration prepares for a rebirth, a European rover tunes up its gear for the challenges ahead.
Tomorrow, 23 July, ESA and dozens of industrial partners will assess the readiness of the ExoMars robotic explorer, named Rosalind Franklin, for a trip to the Red Planet in 2022. The European rover will drill down to two metres into the martian surface to sample the soil, analyse its composition and search for evidence of life buried underground.
The rover successfully proved that it is fit to endure the martian conditions during the environmental test campaign earlier this year in Toulouse, France. This laboratory on wheels withstood temperatures as low as –120°C and less than one hundredth of Earth’s atmospheric pressure to simulate the extremes of its journey through space and on the surface of Mars.
By the end of this week a more robust set of solar panels will begin its trip to reunite with the rover after some cracks were detected during those environmental tests. New fasteners are in place and will be on their way from the Airbus facilities in Stevenage, in the UK, to Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, where the rover awaits power up at the beginning of August.
The disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic have added new obstacles for industry across Europe on the road to Mars. Parachute and interface tests are expected to resume in October.
New missions to Mars launch from a broad range of nations – while the United Arab Emirates’ historic first mission to Mars lifted off from Japan last Sunday, China is preparing to launch tomorrow its first rover to Mars, known as Tianwen-1. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is set to take off with the Perseverance rover onboard next week, on July 30.
These missions focus on the search for evidence of life on the Red Planet and a better understanding of how Earth and Mars evolved so differently.
“We hope that ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover will help write a new page in Mars exploration by allowing us to study organic molecules on the spot,” says Jorge Vago, ESA’s ExoMars project scientist.
Dr Rosalind Franklin, the prominent scientist behind the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of life’s most important molecules, would have been 100 years old on 25 July this year. Her niece, also named Rosalind Franklin in her memory, points out that the X-ray diffraction expert “never conceived science as a race of competitors.”
After a visit to ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands last year, Rosalind believes that her aunt would have loved the ExoMars team spirit. “The work of ESA engineers on the rover struck me – they really do it for the results, not for themselves. This what Rosalind Franklin was all about: commitment and dedication to science,” said Rosalind from her home in California, US.
A series of talks and events is taking place around the globe this week to celebrate the centenary of this “woman of integrity who went after scientific discovery for the betterment of humankind”, as her niece describes her. The legacy of the scientist lives on today, and the ExoMars rover will help leave her symbolic footprint on Mars in 2023.
The ExoMars rover is part of the ExoMars programme, a joint endeavour between ESA and the Russian State Space Corporation, Roscosmos.
Credits: Airbus
Stamattina lo Scorpione emerge dal mare, dai casoni a Caorle, Marte alla minima distanza dalla stella Antares!
This morning the Scorpion emerges from the sea, from huts in Caorle, Mars at the minimum distance from the star Antares!
A personal observation of the increasing distance between Earth and Mars, post opposition. Had hoped for more opportunities, but that is summer weather in South Florida.
Telescope: CPC800 XLT
Camera: ASI102MC-S - and Shorty 2X Barlow.
Other process / Enhanced RGB with F635, F546 and F437 filters
Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) : February 22, 2025
Image credit : Emirates Mars mission/MBRSC/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos
The pre-dawn morning of May 25th provided me with the most stable skies that I have experienced so far this year. The previous morning's Mars was a boiling sphere of red and no real details could be seen. But now the Red Planet wavered only mildly in my eyepiece at over 300-power, often showing sharpness rarely seen under my skies. The South Polar cap was pointed in Earth’s direction and was distinct (south is up in the drawing). Mare Erythraeum dominated the south while Mare Acidalium darkened the northern hemisphere, with the bright desert region of Chryse in-between. The Eye-of-Mars (Solis Lacus) appeared as a dark bump extending to the right of Mare Eryhraeum. I live for stable skies like I had the morning of May 25th. I only hope that such nights will continue to appear, on occasion, over my house as Mars grows in size over the next couple of months.
Additional Astronomical drawing can be seen at: www.orrastrodrawing.com
Small MOC that I made starting with the canopy piece. It has a cabin for two crew members, a robotic arm, emission and reception antennas, four-wheel drive, etc.
Video in portuguese: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1PIt_VETFk
RGB with 3 filters in visible light
Olympus Mons - Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) - date : march 13th 2021
Credit : Emirates Mars mission/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos
Shot with single off-camera strobe (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II trigger), camera right 80 degrees, 30 degrees above subject, modified with MagMod MagSnoot.
Shot for
21 Day Flickr Birthday Photo Challenge - Day 9 Exploration
The Sojourner Mars rover was launched on December 4, 1996 and reached Mars on July 4, 1997. The rover was created by the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology as part of the Pathfinder Mission. The rover was named after Sojourner Truth, the Civil War era antiabortionist and women's rights activist as a result of national competition for school children by the National Science Teachers Association.
Sojouner was active from the time of landing for 92 Martian days (sols) and the last signal ws received on October 7, 1997 and had traveled approximately 100 meters from the Pathfinder base station at the time the mission ended.
Saturation mode fully engaged for this mutation of an autumnal Druidston beach.
We're Here are saturated in colour today; marvellous!
Hand-held & filter-free in Pembrokeshire Mars.
Updated topographic map of Mars with all official names up to date 14.1.2016 and higher resolution coverage around landing sites. More detailed description is in the map.
Credit: NASA / JPL / GSFC / ASU / USGS / ESA / DLR / FU Berlin (G. Neukum) / Daniel Macháček.
Mars on the evening of September 25 at 20:46 in seeing conditions that were fluctuating in the above average range. (3.5-4/5). Image is the best 33% of 51,160 frames with Autostakkert.
Earth distance 0.565 AU.
Phase 89.2%
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 HD
ASI290MC camera
X-Cel 2.0 Barlow
ZWO ADC
9400mm focal length
3.4ms exposure
286 fps average
180 seconds capture.
Flickr friends - with the new Martian movie soon to be out, I thought I'd share some Earth/Mars Facts!
Average Distance from Sun
Earth - 93 million miles
Mars - 142 million miles
Average Speed in Orbiting Sun
Earth - 18.5 miles per second
Mars - 14.5 miles per second
Diameter
Earth - 7,926 miles
Mars - 4,220 miles
Tilt of Axis
Earth - 23.5 degrees
Mars - 25 degrees
Length of Year
Earth - 365.25 Days
Mars - 687 Earth Days
Length of Day
Earth - 23 hours 56 minutes
Mars - 24 hours 37 minutes
Gravity
Earth - 2.66 times that of Mars
Mars - 0.375 that of Earth
Temperature
Earth - Average 57 degrees F
Mars - Average -81 degrees F
Atmosphere
Earth - nitrogen, oxygen, argon, others
Mars - mostly carbon dioxide, some water vapor
Number of Moons
Earth - 1
Mars - 2
One more shot of the iconic sign along I94 in Wisconsin. I wrote about this photo on my blog.
© Andy Marfia 2011
23/03/2017, Ijmuiden, Netherlands.
Keel laid on 30/12/2012 and completed on 15/11/2016.
Contracted from B.V. Scheepswerf Damen Gorinchem (512531) and built by Song Cam, Haiphong, Viet Nam (512531)
447 g,t, 158 dwt., and 82.5 tons bollard pull, as:
'Mars'.
iskestugs.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Iskes-Fleetlist-M...
Photos by kind permission of Willem Koper 👌