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Credit & Copyright: Luc Debeck
Explanation:
Mars looks pretty sharp in this
backyard
telescope image
captured on July 23 from Hoegaarden, Belgium, planet Earth.
The Red Planet's
bright south polar cap is bathed in sunlight at the top
of the inverted view, while the dark feature known as Syrtis Major
extends toward the right (eastern) edge.
Rising around midnight for now,
the Red Planet is months away from its own
opposition in early October.
Telescopic
views
will improve even more as Earth, in its faster orbit,
catches up to Mars, the ruddy disk growing larger and brighter still.
The martian
Jezero
Crater
is within the Syrtis Major region.
That's the landing site for NASA's 2020
Mars Rover Perseverance, scheduled for
launch today.
Comet NEOWISE images from planet Earth: July
29,
28,
27,
26,
25,
24
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