Time: Mon Mar 24 17:31:12 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01215; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:49:37 -0700 (MST) id PAA20943; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:37:28 -0500 (EST) id PAA20926; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:37:25 -0500 (EST) id AA01890; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:37:24 -0500 by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA05602 for <snetnews@world.std.com>; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:37:21 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:18:45 -0800 To: snetnews@world.std.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SNET: Hubble's Sharpest Views of Mars Available -> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List When do we get to see the Hubble photos of the moon? I hear they show green cheese (sandwiched between baloney and rye bread). /s/ Paul Mitchell At 12:29 PM 3/24/97 -0600, you wrote: > >-> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List > >----- Begin Included Message ----- >Date: Mon Mar 24 09:17:29 1997 >From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov >Subject: Hubble's Sharpest Views of Mars Available > >Donald Savage >Headquarters, Washington, DC March 24, 1997 >(Phone: 202/358-1547) > >Tammy Jones >Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD >(Phone: 301/286-5566) > >Ray Villard >Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD >(Phone: 410/338-4514) > >NOTE TO EDITORS: N97-22 > >HUBBLE'S SHARPEST VIEWS OF MARS AVAILABLE > > New, sharpest-ever views of the planet Mars taken by the Wide >Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC2) aboard NASA's Hubble Space >Telescope on March 10, 1997 (following the successful STS-82 >Hubble second servicing mission), clearly show clouds, polar caps >and other bright and dark markings known to astronomers for more >than a century. The images were taken just before Mars opposition >-- when the red planet comes closest to the Earth this year (about >60 million miles or 100 million km). Each picture element (pixel) >in WFPC2's Planetary Camera's image spans 13 miles (22 km) on the >Martian surface. > > These images show the planet during the transition between >spring and summer in the northern hemisphere (summer solstice). >The annual north-polar, carbon-dioxide frost (dry ice) cap is >rapidly subliming, revealing the much smaller permanent water-ice >cap, along with a few nearby detached regions of surface frost. > > Hubble is being used to monitor dust storm activity to >support the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter >Missions, which are currently en route to Mars. Hubble's "weather >report" from these images, is invaluable for Mars Pathfinder, >which is scheduled for a July 4 landing. These images show no >evidence for large-scale dust storm activity, which plagued a >previous Mars mission in the early 1970s. > > Images are available to news media representatives by calling >202/358-1900. photo numbers are: > >Color: Syrtis Major 97-HC-136 Mars at Opposition 97-HC-137 > > Image files are also available on the Internet on GIF and >JPEG formats via anonymous ftp from oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo > > GIF JPEG >Syrtis Major gif/marssm97.gif jpeg/marssm97.jpg >Mars at Opposition gif/marssm97.gif jpeg/marssm97.jpg > > Higher resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG) of the >image are available in /pubinfo/hrtemp: 97- 09a.jpg (color) and >97-09abw.jpg (black and white). > > GIF and JPEG images, captions and information are available >via World Wide Web at: > >http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/09.html and via links in: >http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html or >http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html > > - end - > >----- End Included Message ----- >-- >tonys@the-truth.org >OKC bombing info - >http://www.future.net/~thetruth/okc.html >The Million Dollar Internet Experiment - >http://www.future.net/~thetruth/million.html > >"Imagination is more important than > knowledge." -- Albert Einstein > > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: tfs@adc.com (Tony F Sgarlatti) > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ======================================================================== -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com -> Posted by: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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