Monday, December 3, 2007

Mars as it is Today

This is a site that contains a poster which is produced daily by Howard Houben of the Mars Global Circulation Model Group for the Center for Mars Exploration at NASA's Ames Research Center. The poster depicts current conditions on Mars and its relationship to Earth in six panels. The panels show predicted wind speeds for today, temperatures for today, water vapor distribution for today, etc. The poster also shows the relative scale of Mars as compared with Earth and the orbital positions of the Earth and Mars with respect to each other and the sun for today. Furthermore it has a high res image of Mars taken on that day as it would look to us on that day. This link is excellent. http://www.marsinstitute.info/epo/marstoday.html

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