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Observing Mars 2003 - Flagstaff Arizona |
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 Mar 10 2009, 06:55 PM
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Mar 10 2009, 08:48 PM
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Those drawings are wonderful - and in a nod to Stu's walking alongside the rovers, it is astonishing to think how we've gone in just a hundred years from sketching general areas of "albedo" to looking at individual grains of Martian regolith.
Think of that. Andy |
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Mar 10 2009, 10:54 PM
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Changed the topic title from Mars Hill. The 'Mars Hill' is something specific, in Death Valley.
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Mar 11 2009, 01:51 AM
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Mars Hill is somewhere specific in Flagstaff, too- it's the location of Lowell Observatory (1400 Mars Hill Rd., to be specific). I should know, I used to live there
 But the drawings were done at Lick Observatory in California... |
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Mar 11 2009, 02:55 AM
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Yes, I have gotten some great views of Saturn from there during my NAU days.
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Mar 12 2009, 08:47 AM
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Lick Observatory - 1887
Mt Hamilton (1285 m) CA Largest instrument: 3.01 m Shane Reflector In construction: 2.56 m Automated Planet Finder  Lowell Observatory – 1894 Mars Hill (2210 m) AZ Largest instrument: 1.80 m Perkins Reflector In construction: 4.20 m Disc Chan Telescope (Happy Jack site)
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Mar 14 2009, 04:56 AM
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Speaking of telescopic observers of Mars, check out the Google homepage logo today commemorating the 174th birthday of Schiaparelli (and the roll-out of new Google Mars features!)
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 28 2009, 12:54 PM
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I know that this picture does not represent scientific value, but is truly remarkable.
http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/articles/...-the-moons-edge Mars is so close and yet so far. -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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