[meteorite-list] Impressive Viewer Interactive HD CuriosityCamera.

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:28:34 -0600
Message-ID: <502E7F42.8040609_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

The night sky on Mars is probably worse on average than on Earth. Our
atmosphere hardly attenuates the stars at all (less than a magnitude at
sea level), but Mars often has a lot of dust in the air, which
definitely blocks them.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 8/17/2012 11:13 AM, John Lutzon wrote:
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> Thanks for the link...Awesome!
> Being that Curiosity is nuclear powered, I would love to see a night
> panorama of the amount of stars that would be visible in the dark thin
> atmosphere.
>
> John
Received on Fri 17 Aug 2012 01:28:34 PM PDT