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Old 29-11-2009, 12:40 PM
Joel Warren
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Mars dust animation from early September

Since it looks like imaging will be out of the question for at least a week due to seeing, I got bored and made this gif. Back in early September, there had been a moderate dust flare up that had been lingering over Arcadia, south of the N. Pole region for a few weeks. I was able to catch some good images of it on the 7th and they match up perfectly with the THEMIS data. Christophe Pellier congratulated me for catching it, so I'm quite sure it is the dust that I caught. He also called it, if I'm not mistaken, "unusal". Please correct me on that if I'm wrong Chris. Mars was only 5.9 arcseconds at this time. I took my best images out of the set from that morning and made this animated gif. You can see the cloud changing, well, perhaps not changing, but the sunlight hitting it differently as the planet rotates. And, if you know where to look, you can see Olympus mons in frame 2 and 3. It shows up much better in the single images. This was a rather difficult gif to make. I hope you enjoy it.
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