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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
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
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Fontpage photo I took for Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. The exhibition is called One-Way Ticket To Mars, which lets you vision a journey to and permanent life on Mars.
The real eye-catcher in the main hall is the artwork created by Luke Jerram (@lukejerramartist)! In the foreground, a beautiful space man sculpture by the legendary artist Jan Fabre (@troubleyn_janfabre) is being displayed.
The Mars artwork by Luke offers the chance for people to study the surface of the planet up close and in three dimensions. Created from high resolution NASA data, at 6 metres in diameter the Mars artwork is 1.1 million times smaller than the actual planet. In other words, each centimetre of the sculpture describes 11 kilometres of the surface of Mars.
📷Fujiflim X-H1 + Samyang 12/2 | ƒ/8 | 1.5s | 12mm | ISO800
🌍 Amersfoort, The Netherlands
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.
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
Enhanced RGB with F635, F546 and F437 filters
Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) : December 19, 2023
Image credit : Emirates Mars mission/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos
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 👌
A nice Mars captured in an unexpected break in the clouds just as Mars was at its highest from my location. A bright patch of cloud to SE as well as thin white clouds showing over the southern regions.
Peter
In June 2028 the Mars Race yielded a shocking and final result: having jumped into the compedition with a major underdog position, the frogs made it into the red planet before any human-occupied spacecrafts. Despite their shortcomings (no written language, no universities), it turned out that launcing a 14-gram Pelophylax ridibundus with a 20-gram space suit took a lot less rocket fuel and advanced engines than, for example, 80 000 gram human with a 100 000 gram space suit.
It's needless to say that her first words upon stepping into the Martian surface was "ribbit".
Bio-Cup 2024, prelims, "Space".
More on Cyclopic Bricks.
Enhanced RGB (another processing method) with F635, F546 and F437 filters
Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) : February 15, 2025 / Local time on Mars : 12h25
Image credit : Emirates Mars mission/MBRSC/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos
Jupiter , Saturn , Mars , QHYCCD QHY5III462 , GSO(Kasai) GS-150CC + Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate , Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
晴れ間を見つけては惑星を見ています。
シーイングは良くも悪くも無いといったところでしょうか。
昨年の秋頃から同じ機材・撮影方法・現像方法でやってきましたが、あまり進歩がない、、、
何か良い打開策はないものか、、、少々悩んでいます。
Coming up with ideas for Flickr Friday group. This weeks theme 'Mars." Didn't use this one because the admin' like submissions to be "Disney safe". I didn't want to fall foul (again) because I'd added the skull that implied/shown failure/death.
Asimov Crater is an impact crater in the Noachis quadrangle of Mars. It is 84.0 km in diameter and was named after Isaac Asimov.
MARS Reconnaissance Orbiter
Image credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Processing and copyright: Leo Shatz
RGB with 3 filters in visible light
Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) - date : February 16th 2022
Credit : Emirates Mars mission/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos