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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
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
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.
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 👌
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
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Today the We're Here group are visiting the According to Hoyle group.
On Mars is the latest brain burning game by Vital Lacerda and will require much reading and rereading of the rules to master .... just like all Vital's other games.
Enhanced RGB with three filters in visible light (Red, Green and Blue) - crop and enlargement
Mars taken by Hirise - point of interest : traces on the ground
Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/Thomas Thomopoulos
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
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
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.
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.