Mars Approaching
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Day 9 (D-15)
Mars is melting....
Just like the Earth that we live on, Mars has seasons either. It's spring in this time of the year on south pole of Mars. Summer will begin on September 27th, then the ice cap on Mars will almost completely gone at that time. The polar ice cap is basically the part of Martian atmosphere that is consisted mainly with carbon dioxide. During the winter time, most of the Martial atmosphere freezes down to the ground as ice and then melt into atmosphere during the summer season.
Mars is melting....
Just like the Earth that we live on, Mars has seasons either. It's spring in this time of the year on south pole of Mars. Summer will begin on September 27th, then the ice cap on Mars will almost completely gone at that time. The polar ice cap is basically the part of Martian atmosphere that is consisted mainly with carbon dioxide. During the winter time, most of the Martial atmosphere freezes down to the ground as ice and then melt into atmosphere during the summer season.
Monday, August 11, 2003
Day 7 (D-17)
Another excellent website dealing with Mars. A Boulder based company made this website(exploreMarsnow.org). We can take a look at the future habitat on Mars on this website. Surprisingly, this habitat is not a dream. A project is going on for the manned-landing on Mars in 2015!!! If this is true and became real, the Mars habitat that we saw from SF movies are becoming true.
Last night's Mars was quite bright despite the bright night sky because of the almost Full Moon. Fortunately, August 27th nearest approach day is the date of New Moon so the sky might be the best for Mars observation.
Another excellent website dealing with Mars. A Boulder based company made this website(exploreMarsnow.org). We can take a look at the future habitat on Mars on this website. Surprisingly, this habitat is not a dream. A project is going on for the manned-landing on Mars in 2015!!! If this is true and became real, the Mars habitat that we saw from SF movies are becoming true.
Last night's Mars was quite bright despite the bright night sky because of the almost Full Moon. Fortunately, August 27th nearest approach day is the date of New Moon so the sky might be the best for Mars observation.
Sunday, August 10, 2003
Day 6 (D-18)
Another space craft going to Mars from European Union was launched on June 2. It is scheduled to arrive at Mars on the night of 25 December 2003, after a journey of about 400 million kilometres. It'll be a great present for human being on Earth on Christmas day!! The space craft was launched by Soyuz/Fregat rocket and its own way to Mars on schedule. We can check the mission status from European Space Agency homepage (esa).
Another space craft going to Mars from European Union was launched on June 2. It is scheduled to arrive at Mars on the night of 25 December 2003, after a journey of about 400 million kilometres. It'll be a great present for human being on Earth on Christmas day!! The space craft was launched by Soyuz/Fregat rocket and its own way to Mars on schedule. We can check the mission status from European Space Agency homepage (esa).
Saturday, August 09, 2003
Day 5 (D-19)
Unfortunately, cloudy and stormy weather in Colorado prevent us to observe Mars for several days. The distance between Mars and Earth is now 59.0 million km. The distance is decreasing amazingly!!
Unfortunately, cloudy and stormy weather in Colorado prevent us to observe Mars for several days. The distance between Mars and Earth is now 59.0 million km. The distance is decreasing amazingly!!
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Day 1 (D-23)
This is the first day of observation of Mars Journal. Observation device is a Meade telescope NG-60 60mm Altazimuth Refracting Telescopes with achromatic objective lens (D=60mm, F=700mm f/11.7) and eye piece MA25mm and MA9mm. With this device shape of the Mars and color differences on Mars surface. Ice covered part of the Mars was observed as white color. Mars will approach to Earth in 55.76 million km distance on August 27th and the distance can be checked from NASA website, Mars Ephemeris Generator 2.1. Mars is still located 60.8 million km away from Earth. It's far away from it's closest distance.
[Mars Ephemeris]
year mo dy hr mi Planet RA PlanetDec earthop earthdist
2003 8 4 23 30 22.918885 -13.74203 -19.691 6.0805E+07
2003 8 4 23 40 22.918854 -13.74254 -19.691 6.0802E+07
2003 8 4 23 50 22.918824 -13.74305 -19.690 6.0799E+07
This is the first day of observation of Mars Journal. Observation device is a Meade telescope NG-60 60mm Altazimuth Refracting Telescopes with achromatic objective lens (D=60mm, F=700mm f/11.7) and eye piece MA25mm and MA9mm. With this device shape of the Mars and color differences on Mars surface. Ice covered part of the Mars was observed as white color. Mars will approach to Earth in 55.76 million km distance on August 27th and the distance can be checked from NASA website, Mars Ephemeris Generator 2.1. Mars is still located 60.8 million km away from Earth. It's far away from it's closest distance.
[Mars Ephemeris]
year mo dy hr mi Planet RA PlanetDec earthop earthdist
2003 8 4 23 30 22.918885 -13.74203 -19.691 6.0805E+07
2003 8 4 23 40 22.918854 -13.74254 -19.691 6.0802E+07
2003 8 4 23 50 22.918824 -13.74305 -19.690 6.0799E+07
