Planet Mars as seen by the 60-Inch Telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory
Mars 1956 Top - Showing opposite hemispheres August 10 Orange and August 22 Red Bottom - Haze in the Martian atmosphere obscured surface detail in September. September 11 Orange and September 11 Blue Taken with 60 - inch telescope Cat # 294
July 14, 2015
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Astronomers took these four views of Mars during the Red Planet's closest approach to the Earth in 1956. They took a series of images through colored filters over the course of one month, to show a dynamic, changing surface.
