Dust Storms on Mars (October 15th 1996)
esahubble_opo9634a4 November 1st, 1996
Credit: Phil James (University of Toledo), Steve Lee (University of Colorado) and NASA/ESA
Though the storm has dissipated by October, a distinctive dust-colored comma-shaped feature can be seen curving across the ice cap. The shape is similar to cold fronts on Earth, which are associated with low pressure systems. Nothing quite like this feature has been seen previously either in ground-based or spacecraft observation.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9634a4/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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- ID
- opo9634a4
- Subject Category
- A.1.2.2.2
- Subject Name
- Mars
- Credits
- Phil James (University of Toledo), Steve Lee (University of Colorado) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1996-11-01T06:00:00
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- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9634a4/
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- Observation
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- N/A
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
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- Bandpass
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- Equinox
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- FITS Header
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- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9634a4
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9634a4.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:47:17+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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