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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:18:45 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SNET: Hubble's Sharpest Views of Mars Available
-> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List
When do we get to see the Hubble photos
of the moon?
I hear they show green cheese
(sandwiched between baloney
and rye bread).
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 12:29 PM 3/24/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>Date: Mon Mar 24 09:17:29 1997
>From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov
>Subject: Hubble's Sharpest Views of Mars Available
>
>Donald Savage
>Headquarters, Washington, DC March 24, 1997
>(Phone: 202/358-1547)
>
>Tammy Jones
>Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
>(Phone: 301/286-5566)
>
>Ray Villard
>Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
>(Phone: 410/338-4514)
>
>NOTE TO EDITORS: N97-22
>
>HUBBLE'S SHARPEST VIEWS OF MARS AVAILABLE
>
> New, sharpest-ever views of the planet Mars taken by the Wide
>Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC2) aboard NASA's Hubble Space
>Telescope on March 10, 1997 (following the successful STS-82
>Hubble second servicing mission), clearly show clouds, polar caps
>and other bright and dark markings known to astronomers for more
>than a century. The images were taken just before Mars opposition
>-- when the red planet comes closest to the Earth this year (about
>60 million miles or 100 million km). Each picture element (pixel)
>in WFPC2's Planetary Camera's image spans 13 miles (22 km) on the
>Martian surface.
>
> These images show the planet during the transition between
>spring and summer in the northern hemisphere (summer solstice).
>The annual north-polar, carbon-dioxide frost (dry ice) cap is
>rapidly subliming, revealing the much smaller permanent water-ice
>cap, along with a few nearby detached regions of surface frost.
>
> Hubble is being used to monitor dust storm activity to
>support the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
>Missions, which are currently en route to Mars. Hubble's "weather
>report" from these images, is invaluable for Mars Pathfinder,
>which is scheduled for a July 4 landing. These images show no
>evidence for large-scale dust storm activity, which plagued a
>previous Mars mission in the early 1970s.
>
> Images are available to news media representatives by calling
>202/358-1900. photo numbers are:
>
>Color: Syrtis Major 97-HC-136 Mars at Opposition 97-HC-137
>
> Image files are also available on the Internet on GIF and
>JPEG formats via anonymous ftp from oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo
>
> GIF JPEG
>Syrtis Major gif/marssm97.gif jpeg/marssm97.jpg
>Mars at Opposition gif/marssm97.gif jpeg/marssm97.jpg
>
> Higher resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG) of the
>image are available in /pubinfo/hrtemp: 97- 09a.jpg (color) and
>97-09abw.jpg (black and white).
>
> GIF and JPEG images, captions and information are available
>via World Wide Web at:
>
>http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/09.html and via links in:
>http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html or
>http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
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