Mars and Meteor over Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Explanation:
A brilliant yellowish celestial beacon, Mars still
dazzles
in the night.
Peering between clouds the wandering planet was
briefly joined by the flash of a meteor in this moonless
dark sky on November 18.
The single exposure was taken as the Earth swept up dust from
periodic comet Tempel-Tuttle during the annual
Leonid
Meteor Shower.
The view of a rugged western horizon looks along
the Yulong mountain range in Yunnan province, southwestern China.
Yulong
(Jade Dragon)
Snow Mountain lies below the clouds and
beyond the end of the meteor streak.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
