Don't assume that when you look at Mars through a telescope that you're
going to see it like the pictures in magazines & such.
Those pictures have been taken professionally using powerful equipment
utilizing long exposure times.
The very 1st time I looked at a planet through my "humble" telescope i
was disapointed.It didn't look anything like the pictures I had seen.But
after doing some learned research I realized that's the way it's
supposed to look.ONLY by taking photographs with long load times wil
celestial objects look like published pictures.