[huskerlug] Re: MARS SPECTACULAR!
- From: Eliot Phillips <mechanized@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:55:51 -0500
I'm just glad they got their rover unstuck.
On 6/5/05, Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What also is spectacular is seeing the dust devils on Mars that the
> Rovers are
> photographing, makes you think of the good old days in Nebraska! I see
> I'm going
> to have to dig out a telescope! ---Jim
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> Jerry Kreps wrote:
> >On Saturday 04 June 2005 18:08, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> >
> >=3D46red,
> >
> >That "Closest approach in 60,000 years" occurred TWO years ago, August 2=
3,=3D
> >=3D20
> >2003!
> >http://www.shallowsky.com/mars.html
> >"This year's opposition will not be as close as the 2003 opposition. How=
eve=3D
> >r,=3D20
> >here's the good news! For nothern hemisphere observers, Mars will be muc=
h=3D20
> >higher in the sky, 60=3DB0 vs only 37=3DB0 in 2003. That makes a huge di=
fferenc=3D
> >e in=3D20
> >the steadiness of the atmosphere; even though the disk of Mars will only=
be=3D
> >=3D20
> >20.2" in size (vs. 25" in 2003, or 14" at very unfavorable oppositions),=
th=3D
> >e=3D20
> >steadier seeing may allow use of much higher magnification. 2005 may be =
the=3D
> >=3D20
> >best opposition in years
> >Opposition is on October 29, 2005."
> >
> >
> >Here is a graphical explaination:
> >http://basic1.easily.co.uk/057044/04D005/maths%20today.htm
> >
> > "All the other close approaches for the past and next few years are sho=
wn.=3D
> > As=3D20
> >you can see, in 2003 Mars is just about as close as it can ever come. "
> >
> >Mars average distance from Earth is about 35M miles
> >
> >
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