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Mars Image
Space Imaging ^

Posted on 09/03/2003 8:39:47 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer

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1 posted on 09/03/2003 8:39:47 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
UHH, WHERE?
2 posted on 09/03/2003 8:40:33 PM PDT by lafroste
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To: PatrickHenry
Think this deserves your ping list?
3 posted on 09/03/2003 8:40:38 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: lafroste
Click the link in the header.
4 posted on 09/03/2003 8:41:29 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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5 posted on 09/03/2003 8:44:05 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Free Miguel, Priscilla and Bill!)
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To: lafroste
You have to use your imagination. Just picture a planet similar to Arrakis.
6 posted on 09/03/2003 8:44:19 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
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To: lafroste
Out in Space, silly...
7 posted on 09/03/2003 8:44:22 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Chad Fairbanks - 1970 Recipient of the Prestigious Y-Chromosome Award)
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To: KevinDavis; Brett66; RightWhale
You will like this. :-)
8 posted on 09/03/2003 8:44:23 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: So Cal Rocket
These two images of Mars were taken by Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite as the red planet and Earth reached their closest proximity in nearly 60,000 years. At that point which occurred last week, Mars was 34.6 million miles (55.6 million kilometers) away. The first image (left) was taken on Aug. 26, 2003 at 21:40 GMT (3:40 p.m. MDT) as IKONOS came out of the eclipse of the Earth and orbited over our planet’s northern pole. The second image (right) was taken a little more than a half a Martian rotation later on Aug. 27, 2003 at 12:26 GMT (6:26 a.m. MDT). The Martian south polar ice cap is visible at the bottom of both images. The resolution of these images is approximately 67 km. IKONOS takes images of Earth at 1-meter resolution.

Although IKONOS is designed to take images of the Earth, because of its agility, it can look away from Earth and take images of objects in space. Even though Space Imaging doesn’t sell stellar images, it does periodically take images of specific stars in order to calibrate the IKONOS imaging array for luminosity.
9 posted on 09/03/2003 8:44:48 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Free Miguel, Priscilla and Bill!)
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To: So Cal Rocket
Thank you :-)
10 posted on 09/03/2003 8:44:54 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: So Cal Rocket
A little vanity here! I helped to take this pic. :-)
11 posted on 09/03/2003 8:48:06 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
Amazing photo for an earth-orbiting satellite, but we've been spoiled bigtime by closeup shots of the red planet.
12 posted on 09/03/2003 8:48:14 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: RadioAstronomer
Good job, RA. Good job indeed.
13 posted on 09/03/2003 8:49:01 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo
Good job, RA. Good job indeed

Thanks! :-)

14 posted on 09/03/2003 8:50:19 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: longshadow
ping. :-)
15 posted on 09/03/2003 8:55:53 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
Ah, ha. So this is what goes on late at night in the control room when you guys think that nobody's watching.

"Hey, you really wanna take more pictures of the eastern seaboard?"
"Boooriiing. We'll shoot 'em tomorrow night - tell 'em it was a technical glitch or something."
"I'll tell 'em we had sunspots."
"Sunspots is good. What else is there to look at?"
"There's that nude beach in California again."
"Can't - too dark. Nobody'll be there."
"Oh, yeah. Hey, what if we flip it around and shoot some images of Mars?"
"I like it. Now where's that pizza guy, dang it?"

16 posted on 09/03/2003 9:01:02 PM PDT by general_re (Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?)
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To: RadioAstronomer
Very nice photos! Thanks for posting this.
17 posted on 09/03/2003 9:01:23 PM PDT by Jen (Support our troops! Share the news of our military's successes that the liberal media won't report.)
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To: RadioAstronomer
That looks just like what I saw in my telescope when I looked at it. The darker equatorial regions are barely visible in my 4.5" Newtonian, the polar cap is very prominent. It just dawned on me why photos show so many different equatorial regions. You can wait a few hours and Mars will be facing a completely different direction due to it's 24 hr. rotation.
18 posted on 09/03/2003 9:02:42 PM PDT by Brett66
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To: general_re
"I like it. Now where's that pizza guy, dang it?"

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!

19 posted on 09/03/2003 9:10:41 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: AntiJen
Your welcome :-)
20 posted on 09/03/2003 9:11:44 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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