Just a little picture

August 19, 2003

Dot

After a burrito dinner at Taco Guaymas near Green Lake park, we anticipated we would have little trouble finding someone looking at Mars through a telescope, seeing as the red planet is as close to Earth as it has been in 50,000 years. We strolled desultorily across the grass on the NW end of the lake and stumbled immediately upon a group who turned out to be members of Think-UP.org, local astronomy boosters.

Through what seemed like a pretty large telescope, Mars appeared as, well, a fairly bright, fairly small disc of light. Artist's rendering:


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Catch it while you can, or wait another 100,000 years.

Posted by Charles at 11:20 PM






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