The Hubble Space Telescope has taken another image of Mars in opposition:
The Red Planet and Earth are nearing what is called opposition, when their orbits line them up with the Sun - and put them very close to each other. This occurs every 780 days or so, and enables the super-sharp HST to see surface details that are just 30km across. Hubble has imaged Mars at this time routinely since its launch in 1990.
More details and images at HubbleSite.
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Hubble Takes an Image of Mars Near Opposition
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2016, @05:25PM
And the link advertising "another image of Mars in opposition" is a link to a BBC article instead of the advertised image... C'mon editors, quit boozing and shape up!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Friday May 20 2016, @08:39PM
Piss off, it has the image and information about it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2016, @08:12PM
Interesting, but it would've been nice if it said what kind of clouds. I assume it's dust clouds.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday May 20 2016, @10:07PM
I was wishing the image contained some orientation, like which was is up, or where the poles are. But then I remembered Google Mars! Yep, Google maps of Mars! Street view does not seem very extensive yet, though.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday May 21 2016, @12:30AM
If you follow the link at the bottom of the summary, there are several images there. Choose your favorite from the annotated images [hubblesite.org] listed.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday May 21 2016, @08:10AM
Wow! To gain knowledge, you only have to RTFA! Why wasn't I informed of this earlier? Do you realize the heights to which humanity might have ascended, if only this was widely disseminated? But thanks for the tip, in any case. I now know that those clouds off to the west are not the polar ice cap. This is an important thing to know.
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Saturday May 21 2016, @02:29AM
1. Recover another Falcon9 from "I know you still love me"
2. Build a used Falcon Heavy from the recovered rockets
3. Send it to Mars along a Dragon capsule with a rover
4. Sell "canal view" to Google
5. ????
6. Profit!!!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2016, @05:22AM
7. Mars fights back
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday May 21 2016, @03:03PM
Citation needed for "I know you still love me". Google returns me too many different things for me to know what you mean.
A link or an explanation will do.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday May 21 2016, @06:46PM
Of Course I Still Love You [wikipedia.org] is the name of a barge that SpaceX lands rockets on.