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Mars - December 02, 2020, Fábio

Mars - December 02, 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Hi all,

follows a new image of Mars taken in the early evening of December 2nd with variable seeing and good transparency. In the image we can see that the dust layer that covered almost the entire Mare Erhytraeum a few weeks ago is now limited to small outbreaks spread especially over Argire Planitia, Margaritifer Terra and Noachis Terra. There is also a cloud layer south of Solis Planum and over the Tharsis volcanoes. Mars is getting smaller as we move away from it making details more and more difficult to record. This will probably be our last image of Mars this year, ending the season with a taste for more! Unfortunately, the next oppositions will be aphelic and the planet will be distant and small even in the closest approximations. It will only get better 13 years from now when the perihelion oppositions return.

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Mars - December 02, 2020, Fábio