Mars Kicks Up the Dust as it Makes Closest Approach to Earth
esahubble_opo0534a November 3rd, 2005
Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (Cornell University) and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth on the night of October 29. Hubble astronomers were also excited to have captured a regional dust storm on Mars that has been growing and evolving over the past few weeks.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0534a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0534a
- Subject Category
- A.1
- Subject Name
- Mars
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (Cornell University) and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)
- Release Date
- 2005-11-03T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0534a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- R, V, U
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 502, 250
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 800.0, 800.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo0534a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0534a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2005-11-02T14:12:22-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.0
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