Mars Curiosity

Had they thought of putting a simple telescope on this rover,they
could have witnessed the same feature we see of Venus as the polar
coordinates turn in a circle to the central Sun as a component of a
planet's orbital motion.Precession is an orbital trait and not an
axial one as the North/South polar latitude turn in a circle and act
like a beacon for the orbital behavior of the Earth.It takes only an
imitation analogy where a broom handle represents constant rotational
alignment (stellar circumpolar motion) while the line of a body
walking/orbiting a central object represents the slow and uneven
turning of a planet as it moves along its orbital circumference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_precession.svg

From the tradition of Galileo,those men who value the magnification
exercise have no reason to ignore what he saw in Venus just as we now
can see of the Earth if they took time out from the childish exercise
of 'life on Mars' and focused on what the magnificent new achievement
could do.

".But the telescope plainly shows us its horns to be as bounded and
distinct as those of the moon, and they are seen to belong to a very
large circle, in a ratio almost forty times as great as the same disc
when it is beyond the sun, toward the end of its morning
appearances. " Galileo

We can now see the Earth do this from Mars,we can see the polar
coordinates turn through the circle of illumination at the
equinoxes,we can see the cause of the variations in the natural noon
cycle,why the seasons change and why the apparent declination of the
Sun changes over the course of an annual cycle.

A simple telescope,that was all that was needed to see so much and
that is what diminishes the mission.

On Aug 5, 10:39*pm, oriel36 wrote:
Had they thought of putting a simple telescope on this rover,they
could have witnessed the same feature we see of Venus as the polar
coordinates turn in a circle to the central Sun as a component of a
planet's orbital motion.

Space on the probe is at a premium; we already know Earth will look
from Mars as Venus does from Earth, and so we don't need to go to
great lengths to confirm that.

John Savard

The spectacle of the Earth's polar coordinates turning through the
circle of illumination while its size and luminosity increases and
fades will be one of the more brilliant astronomical images -

http://www.masil-astro-imaging.com/S...age%20flat.jpg

Maybe the lander has an instrument that can look out at the faster
moving Earth and create a similar sequence which clearly shows that
the orbital behavior of the Earth prohibits axial recession as it is
presently understood and puts it firmly as an annual orbital event
where the polar coordinates act like a beacon and turn like so to the
central Sun -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_precession.svg

We can see planetary phases of the Earth from Mars and adjust to more
productive perspectives that assigns such things as a largely
equatorial climate for the Earth just as Uranus has an almost
exclusively polar climate.