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The 10 Best Mars Images Ever
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
03 December 2002
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The
Big Picture
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The Hubble Space Telescope
was not the first spacecraft to bring Mars into sharp focus, but it did capture
one of the best full-globe shots. This image was made during a 1995 opposition,
when Mars relatively close to Earth for the same
reason it will be close in August 2003.
This photo showed up last
year on our list of Top
10 Space Science Photos of all time. Here's what Ray Villard, director for
the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the telescope, said about
it then:
"Looking at pictures of our
Red Planet neighbor never grows tiring. The swirling atmosphere is always changing,
kicking up dust storms and fleecy white clouds as the planet whirls like a toy
top."
While the lack of Martian neighbors
has so far been disappointing, the magic of the Red Planet has not died upon close
inspection.
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