Images of Mars

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1P153127970EFFL5M1.37 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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An updated look at Phobos from ESA.<br /><br />115-051004-0756-6-co-02-Phobos_hires <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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I enlarged and brightened it a bit. I also added contrast so we can see more detail.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Nice picture of Phobus<br />You can really see the lines just pop out of it.

 

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Thanks, but all the hard work was done by JPL and ESA scientist and manufacturers who developed <br />the tools with the hardware to bring these images into the public domain. Us inspired sideline image <br />processors, couldn't have developed and enlarged these images without something to look at. <br /><br />In the image above at first it looks like there is some kind of layering taken place on Phobos <br />but I would guess that the lines and streaks were made by roaming boulders moving along <br />the axis of rotation of Phobos. With such a minute gravitational field objects could easily move over the surface. <br /><br />Say goodbye to Phobos, it is doomed to fall to the surface of Mars within 30 million years.<br /><br /><br /><font color="orange">These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s <br />Mars Express spacecraft, show the detailed structure of Coprates Catena, a southern part of<br /> the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars. <br /><br />Coprates Catena is a chain of collapsed structures, which run parallel to the main valley Coprates<br /> Chasma. These collapsed structures vary between 2500 and 3000 metres deep, which is far less<br /> than the depth of the main valley at 8000 metres. A few landslides can be seen on the valley <br />walls.<font color="white"><br /><br />Again I added contrast and brightened it a bit, to see the actual image go to the ESA web site at<br /><br />http://www.esrin.esa.it/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM3GDWJD1E_0.html<br /><br />Pieces of Coprates Chasma image from above link.<br /><br />5-129-291004-0438-6-3d1-01-<br /></font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Oppy's weather forecast for sol 269, partly cloudy, with no chance of rain. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Some 1 filter images of Oppy's Petrified Forest, I'm hoping they download the other filters for these <br />images so we can get a better idea at what we are looking at.<br /><br />1P153838973EFFR1M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Some more Oppy 1 filter cloud shots <br /><br />1N154004966EDNL0M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Some more Oppy 1 filtered image shots, this one shows Oppy close a seepage looking runoff<br /><br /><br />1N154109013EFFR0M1<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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What is the explanation for Moon like disk at the sky?<br /><br />The diameter seems to be too big for Sun or Fobos or Deimos.<br /><br />ES<br />

 

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<font color="orange">What is the explanation for Moon like disk at the sky? <font color="white"><br /><br />It is most likely an artifact that happens when light strikes the lens a certain way or a particle on the lens. <br /><br />Another couple ideas that we may have to considered is that it is a reflection from a bright object from <br />the surface projected up towards the clouds. Or a ring around one of the Martian moons similar <br />what you see on Earth around our moon. <br /><br /><font color="orange">A Ring Around The Moon<br /> <br />The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight)<br /> from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the <br />light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the <br />Moon ring is almost always the same size. <br /><br />Less typical are the halos that may be produced by different angles in the crystals. They can <br />create halos with an angle of 46 degrees. <br /><br />http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/<br /><br /><font color="white">If this does turn out to be a moon ring, or other type of moon optical behavior then that <br />will tell us a lot about the type of ice crystals formed in the Martian cloud in that image.<br /><br />We may also extrapolate out of it, if it is a moon ring, how far above the Martian surface the <br />clouds are located. <br /></font></font></font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Here are some images from the above link. The top image is a Moonring. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Here are some Spirit one filter wonders.<br /><br />"A Road Less Traveled"<br /><br />2N154158930EFFR0M1 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>