Planet Mars from 5.5 million kilometres (Forwarded)

Peter Gennaro wrote:
Are you talking about the angle or the clarity? I'm talking about the
clarity.

It's not interesting because of the clarity, it's interesting because of
the angle. Complaining about the clarity is missing the point. By the
way, when I worked for Mike Malin we took a similar image of Mars (ours
was not nearly as nice and not in color). Sadly, it turned out to be
the only image Mars Observer ever returned of the red planet. I hope
these guys have better luck.

Clear skies,
Greg

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Greg Crinklaw
Astronomical Software Developer
Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA (33N, 106W, 2700m)

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