Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Discovery Channel :: Hubble Captures Mars Close-Up

Discovery Channel :: Hubble Captures Mars Close-Up: "Aug. 27, 2003 — The Hubble Space Telescope's newest picture of Mars shows summer on the Red Planet just as it makes its closest pass by Earth in 60,000 years.
The image, taken on Tuesday 11 hours before the closest approach, shows in fine detail the scarred surface of Mars, including the 270-mile- (450-km-) diameter Huygens crater near the center of the image, according to a NASA press release."

This has been fun to keep an eye on for the last couple of months. Some of the picture are quite amazing. We should have more when one of those spaceships make planetfall near the end of the year.

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