Mars near opposition 1995-2005: 1999

esahubble_opo0534h November 3rd, 2005

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

NASA's 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. The large regional dust storm appears as the brighter, redder cloudy region in the middle of the planet's disk.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0534h/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Mars
Subject - Solar System: Planet

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Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (R)	673.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (V)	502.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (B)	410.0 nm

ID: opo0534h
Subject Category: A.1
Subject Name: Mars
Credits: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Release Date: 2005-11-03T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0534h/

Type: Observation
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Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: R, V, B
Central Wavelength: 673, 502, 410

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Reference Dimension: 1600.0, 1600.0

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo0534h

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0534h.tif
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Metadata Date: 2005-11-01T16:00:30-05:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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