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Title: Conditions were cloudy over most of the UK...surprise!
Post by: Cyberus on October 30, 2005, 02:40:15 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4384700.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4384700.stm)

comme d'habitude!

Title: Re: Conditions were cloudy over most of the UK...surprise!
Post by: Vincent on October 30, 2005, 03:41:46 PM

Up here, the sky's only been clear enough to see the sun once in the past fortnight!

Twice if you include today.  (All of 5 minutes so far with a big black cloud moving over again.

Title: Re: Conditions were cloudy over most of the UK...surprise!
Post by: JaXanim on October 30, 2005, 05:34:17 PM

Mars will still be pretty close for a week or two, so it's worth getting the scope out weather permitting.

Jax

Title: Re: Conditions were cloudy over most of the UK...surprise!
Post by: NoFastMem on October 30, 2005, 07:48:03 PM

Quote

Dr Massey said the planet's close position to Earth was a boon to astronomers.

He said: "The closer it is to Earth, the bigger it is, and hence the more detail you can see."

...

Who made this guy a doctor?

Title: Re: Conditions were cloudy over most of the UK...surprise!
Post by: cecilia on October 30, 2005, 10:06:03 PM

pics of the dust storm (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=051028_mars_dust_02.jpg?=Mars+on+Oct.+27+and+28,+2005+as+the+dust+storm+emerged.+Credit%3A+Clay+Sherrod,+Arkansas+Sky+Observatories)

more pics (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=051028_dust_first_02.jpg?=The+first+known+image+of+the+dust+storm+(labeled+%22cloud+system%22)+on+Oct.+28,+2005,+taken+with+an+8-inch+backyard+telescope+from+Amarillo,+TX.+Credit%3A+Joel+Warren,+published+with+permission)

this page has a link to an animation of a storm on mars (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_storm_update_011011.html)