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Updated the focus merge function of Mars Raw Utils to output a derivative depth map. Not quite as good as the one generated on the rover, but it's better than nothing. Rendered in Blender.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Animation that rolls Mars around to show all the major features of the Martian topography. This animation begins with a hemispherical view of Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris and then rolls around to reveal the Martian South Pole. While traversing Northward, we pass Hellas Basin and end up looking down up the Martian North Pole.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Had good seeing about a week after the recent 2025 Mars opposition. North (top) and South Polar caps are evident as well as a number of identifiable geographical features / regions - Sinus Meridiani, Sinus Sabaeus, Arabia Terra, Mare Serpentis, Edge of Syrtis Major, Schiaparelli Crater, Chryse Planitia, Acidalia Planitia and more. Clouds can also be seen along the left limb. This is my best image of Mars. Looking ahead to the Red Planet's next opposition in 2027.
Date: January 23, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 5000 frames per filter, lucky imaging (FireCapture)
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Camera: ZWO ASI462MM
Filters: Astronomik R,G,B
Tele Vue 2x Powermate
Mount: iOptron GEM45
Processing: AutoStakkert!4, waveSharp 2.0, Photoshop CC
Our outer neighbour and the forth planet in the solar system.
Unser äußerer Nachbar und der vierte Planet im Sonnensystem.
Belichtung/Exposure: 20 sec (20)
Blende/Aperture: f/4,5
Brennweite/Focal length: 35 mm
ISO-Empfindlichkeit/ISO-Speed: 200
Much better in original size !
This spectrum, its first of Mars, combines data measured by Webb’s NIRSpec instrument, and shows the signatures of water, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in Mars’ atmosphere! The data also gives us information about the planet’s dust, clouds, rocks and more. Spectra like this one are created when light is split apart into its components.
Read more: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/09/19/mars-is-mighty-in-first-we...
More detail:
Webb’s first near-infrared spectrum of Mars, captured by the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) Sept. 5, 2022, as part of the Guaranteed Time Observation Program 1415, over 3 slit gratings (G140H, G235H, G395H). The spectrum is dominated by reflected sunlight at wavelengths shorter than 3 microns and thermal emission at longer wavelengths. Preliminary analysis reveals the spectral dips appear at specific wavelengths where light is absorbed by molecules in Mars’ atmosphere, specifically carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and water. Other details reveal information about dust, clouds, and surface features. By constructing a best-fit model of the spectrum, by the using, for example, the Planetary Spectrum Generator, abundances of given molecules in the atmosphere can be derived.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Mars JWST/GTO team
Image description: mage Description: Graph titled “Mars Atmosphere Composition,” showing data from Webb’s NIRSpec instrument, Fixed Slit Spectroscopy mode. The x-axis is “Wavelength of Light” in microns, ranging from 1.0 to 5.0. The y-axis shows “Brightness of Light (reflected and emitted),” and from bottom to top it goes from dimmer to brighter. Data is represented by a white line with dynamic peaks and dips, both big and small. A purple best-fit line is overlaid on top of the white line. In general, the line starts high, dips (with especially low valleys around 2.75 microns and 4.3-4.4 microns), then rises back up starting around 4.5 microns. Several signatures of molecules can be found in the data, including 5 instances of carbon dioxide (highlighted as yellow vertical stripes on the chart), 1 instance of carbon monoxide (highlighted as a thick red stripe beyond 4.5 microns), and 1 instance of water (highlighted as a thin blue stripe beyond 2.5 microns). The background is a Mars “heat map” taken by Webb’s NIRCam.
Mars has already risen past Mt. Rainier in this view from the northwest. The background constellation is Aquarius.
CAMERA: Olympus OM-1 SLR
LENS: 24 mm
FILM TYPE: 35mm color negative
FILM BRAND: Fuji Press 1600
EXPOSURE: 65 seconds @ f/2.8
I imaged Mars passing M45 the Pleiades with the same lens on 7th, 8th & 13th of March and I've brought the images together to produce this animation video. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D and 50mm fixed lens. Images aligned/stacked using Deep Sky Stacker
Bruno Mars (petergenehernandez1985) & 로제 Rosé (roseannepark)
BEST TRIBUTE EVER!!!
TikTok Video soon...
Author : Alex
Subject : Mars (14.3''/Mag-1.3)
Date : 3rd of january 2025
Telescop : C11 + Barlow 2x
Camera : iNova
Mars04-23_50_59_pipp_AS_P30_lapl5_ap74_conv-4X_DxO-SHmbstdLBm25-rs50-S10crb4255-SHmbstdLBm25+2
Mars observed from Earth's Southern Hemisphere.
Planet watching has been difficult for me this year. Altitude 40º. Distance 81 M km (0.55UA). Illuminated 99%.
In this picture is possible to identify some regions, North Polar Cap, Elysium planitia, Syrtis Major, Mare Tyrrhenum,
Mare hadriaticum, Hellas planitia.
2022.11.29 23h19 utc-3
Telescope Celestron C8 HDEdge F10, Barlow Televue 2x, Cam ASI462mc, filter Baader UV/IR-cut. 1500 frames.
Le carnaval s’en va, les roses vont éclore ;
Sur les flancs des coteaux déjà court le gazon.
Cependant du plaisir la frileuse saison
Sous ses grelots légers rit et voltige encore,
Tandis que, soulevant les voiles de l’aurore,
Le Printemps inquiet paraît à l’horizon.
II
Du pauvre mois de mars il ne faut pas médire ;
Bien que le laboureur le craigne justement,
L’univers y renaît ; il est vrai que le vent,
La pluie et le soleil s’y disputent l’empire.
Qu’y faire ? Au temps des fleurs, le monde est un enfant ;
C’est sa première larme et son premier sourire.
...
A la mi-carême- Alfred De Musset
Enhanced RGB (another processing method) with F635, F546 and F437 filters
Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) : December 14, 2024
Image credit : Emirates Mars mission/MBRSC/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos
Atmospheric turbulence was quite bad tonight but pleased to get my first image of Mars. Southern Polar cap seen at the bottom.
The dark feature towards the top is Niliacus Lacus. The bright region on the left is the Tharsis region.
Celestron 9.25 inch SCT with ZWO224MC colour camera.
ZWO ADC at +/-2
FireCapture acquisition software
AutoStakkert!3 for stacking.
RegiStax6 for wavelet sharpening
Colour balance in PS.
Best 50% stacked of a 5000 frame video @ 108 frames per second. Focal length = 6000mm.
21 arcseconds diameter and increasing as it nears Earth in its orbit. It’s just after winter solstice on Mars (Ls =279) so Southern Hemisphere is tilted sunwards.
Magnitude -2.2
Distance 3.7 Light minutes
CM = 40
Jeudi 17 Mars – Exil volontaire pour Michel, atterrissage de Nicolas dans Oryom. Nouvelle vue, du carré, du rond…
I was sitting here browsing the archive when I saw some Mars imagery. I thought to myself, you know what? I've never done a picture of Mars. Why not? We've got so many robots on its surface and orbiters taking super high resolution close-up imagery, guess I figured it was pointless. Well, here's a picture of Mars. Phobos is also hanging out at the lower right as a faint little dot. This is the south polar ice cap.
Atmosphere appears a little bluer because a near-ultraviolet filter was used in the blue channel. I thought it showed the high altitude clouds a bit better. Oh, and the occulting finger was covering part of the planet. Did my best to clean that up and fill in the blank with a bit of cloned data.
This view represents Mars as it appeared at 2003-06-28 14:32:13 UTC
Some processing notes: I used the F475W data to kind of repair the F344N data because it was overexposed along the polar ice caps.
Red: ACS/HRC F658N
Green: ACS/HRC F502N
Blue: ACS/HRC F344N+F475W
North is 20.66° counter-clockwise from up.
Salut à tous,
Un peu de bon ciel hier pour effectuer quelques essais sur Mars qui est actuellement très proche de la terre.
Information de capture :
Tinlot (Belgique)
Célestron C8 Edge HD
Barlow 2X
Asi224Mc
Filtre Ir-Cut
Vidéo .Ser de 75 secondes à la vitesse de 82 images par seconde.
Drizzle + Upscale
Il y a un artefact circulaire que je ne peux masquer. (Sans doute trop poussé dans le traitement).
Bon ciel !
The Red Planet
Musk says he is going to live on Mars. There's no returning from Mars. There is no return vehicle with that capability.
I made this a few years ago (~2018) for one of my kid's teachers and I'm not sure if I ever shared it online.
HiRISE Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/USGS/Kevin M. Gill
Mars: ISRO/ISSDC/Kevin M. Gill
The Moon rose on eastern sky, and to its lower right, there was an unusually bright star.
The planet Mars, according to experts. Merry Christmas to Everyone and Happy Birthday to Jesus!
Artist's concept of Mars Odyssey mapping mission
Credit: NASA/JPL
Image Number: PIA04245
Date: December 21, 2002
Here’s a pair of astronauts testing out a new rover design for an upcoming manned Mars mission within the walls of a highly sophisticated testing facility as a scientist observes the testing from her control room.
:::BEHIND THE SCENES:::
This photo was more for fun than anything and not connected to my usual LEGO Space storytelling photos. I recently purchased the City Space Starter Set 60077 and I thought it would be neat to take the idea and story behind the set and build out a scene for it. The image on the testing facility’s wall is actually a real photo of the Martian landscape presented on my iPad. My thought was; I’ve seen photos of testing ranges for real Mars-related tech and sometimes they use sand, rocks and on the walls, printed images of Mars. In this case it helps the astronauts get a feel for what it could look like. As usual, comments always welcomed!
Shot of Mars rising along with a chunk of the Milky Way from North Pearl Beach NSW Australia. Shot with Canon 5Dsr and Zeiss C/Y Vario-Sonnar 35-70 f/3.4 T, 4 x shot panorama trying to get as much MW in the frame as I could.
Mars exploration began in the 1960s and more than 40 missions have attempted to reach the Red Planet since – with varying degrees of success. Some early attempts failed at the launch pad, while others reached Mars but were not able to enter orbit around it. Landing on Mars remains challenging even today.
This graphic summaries the history of Mars exploration, categorising the missions into flybys, orbiters, landers and rovers, indicated on the graphic from the outermost circle around Mars, to the surface of the planet as well as by the symbols indicated in the key. Missions to Mars moons are also included but only the mission elements pertaining to Mars itself are shown. A bold red line indicates the mission elements that were successful; the dotted fainter line indicates a (partial) failure, or an uncompleted mission.
For example, in the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission, the orbiter is successfully in orbit (indicated by the bold red line reaching the orbiter circle around Mars). However, while the entry, descent and landing demonstration module returned useful data on its descent (indicated by the bold red line reaching the surface), it did not land correctly and could not complete its surface mission (indicated by the less-bold symbol). To give another example, the Japanese Nozomi mission was intended as an orbiter (indicated by the symbol at the orbiter circle around Mars) and although it reached Mars (indicated by the bold solid line), it failed to enter orbit and instead flew by (indicated by the symbol at the flyby circle and the dotted line to the less bold orbiter symbol).
Over time, missions have evolved from early flyby attempts, to orbiters, landers and rovers. Mars continues to be an attractive destination for exploration, with missions largely focusing on the search for evidence of life on the Red Planet, and a better understanding of how Earth and Mars evolved so differently. While early Mars exploration efforts were dominated by the Soviet Union and the USA, in recent years and even more so in the next decade will see new Mars missions from a broad range of nations.
Europe has been participating in Mars missions since the 1970s through scientific collaboration and contribution of instruments to US- and Soviet-led missions; more recently European instruments have flown on NASA orbiters, landers and rovers. ESA-led missions began with Mars Express, which is still operational today. ESA is preparing for the launch of the ExoMars rover and surface science platform in 2020 in collaboration with Roscosmos; the rover will be the first to drill down to 2 m to search for life below ground. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, while already in orbit conducting its own science mission, will provide data relay services for the next mission.
ESA is also looking ahead to the next logical step in Mars exploration – returning a sample from the surface of Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is the first step of this international endeavour, and two further missions are under study to collect and return the samples (not shown on this graphic). ESA is also participating in JAXA’s Mars Moons Exploration (MMX) mission, which will aim to return a sample from one of the moons (it is indicated as an orbiter on this graphic as it will first enter orbit around Mars, before transferring to the moons).
Credits: ESA
Another shot of the amazing lenticular cloud at Mono Lake in Lee Vining, CA. That bright star in the upper right is Mars.
Canon 5D mkIII, Rokinon 24mm f1.4@24mm, f1.4@31 sec, ISO 2000
The great deserts of Mars dominated the planet when I made this drawing. The gibbous phase of the planet has become obvious as it moves away from its opposition with Earth. It is more than an arcsecond smaller than when I made my last drawing, so it is becoming smaller in the telescope quickly. Details are labeled on the drawing.
Additional Astronomy drawings can be seen at: www.orrastrodrawing.com