Submit a Picture

Where is My Picture?!

The Queue

Met Name

Met Type

Thin Sections

See contributor comments below.   Martian



Murray writes:

Many of you have noticed Mars in the eastern sky in the early evening. Every 2 years and 2 months, approximately, Mars comes to opposition with the Earth. We are headed to that on October 13th, but due to the orbital motions of both planets closest approach was on October 6th. At opposition on the 13th Mars's disc will be 22.4". The central meridian of Mars is located at Sinus Meridiani which is the club shaped marking about mid disc in the center image of the upper pane. Each image is a composite stacked from a 5000 frame video which has been processed to bring out the details. These were taken Friday Oct 2 to Saturday Oct 3 in an 8 hour session where I shot 32 videos of Mars, on 20 minute intervals.

Of course, any Mars aficionado will have a few samples of the "Red Planet" in their collection. I was lucky enough to pick up a Shergotty crumb, 32mg, a sample of Nahkla 200mg and my Chassignite is a 140mg sample of NWA 2737. A Mattel rover was rescued from my son's toy box when he was getting rid of his "kids" toys, and it completes the Martian vignette.

Of course I had to pick up one to keep in pristine condition.

  Click to view larger photos     #1     #2     #3