Dust Storms on Mars (September 18th, 1996)

esahubble_opo9634b November 1st, 1996

Credit: Phil James (University of Toledo), Steve Lee (University of Colorado) and NASA/ESA

The salmon colored notch in the white north polar cap is a 600-mile (1, 000 kilometer) long storm - nearly the width of Texas! This image was taken when Mars was more than 186 million miles (300 million kilometers) from Earth, and the planet was smaller in angular size than Jupiter's Great Red Spot!

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9634b/

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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ID: opo9634b
Subject Category: A.1
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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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9634b/

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Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2
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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: opo9634b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9634b.jpg
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Metadata Date: 2019-10-07T11:40:56.053296
Metadata Version: 1.1

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