Tagged: Mars - Adam Lundie - Eatons Hill Observatory

Tagged: Mars

Mars is Still Hazy thumbnail
14-Aug-2018
Mars is currently at it's closest to Earth since 2003, and appears as a brilliant red star in the sky. Unfortunately it is also suffering from a global dust storm, slowly abating.

Hazy Mars at Opposition thumbnail
11-Jul-2018
Mars is currently at it's closest to Earth since 2003, and appears as a brilliant red star in the sky. Unfortunately it is also suffering from a severe global dust storm, showing no signs of abating. This means even the polar ice caps are hard to see, let alone any surface features.

Mars and Pluto Conjunction thumbnail
02-May-2018
For a period of three mostly cloudy nights, the planet Mars and Pluto were within 1.5 degrees of each other.

Mars Is Difficult thumbnail
29-May-2016
Although Mars is at it's biggest and brightest this week, it's so small, it's a difficult subject to get any detail out of.