by JohnD » Tue Aug 07, 2018 12:19 pm
I was fooled by Mars this last weekend. Officiating at a stage rally on the moors in North East England, I camped the night before, on site. The moors are a military exercise area, with many 'out of bounds' and unexplained contructions around the camp. As dusk fell, with too much cloud to see any stars, there was a light just over the next moortop. It was yellow enough to be a sodium lamp, and with my binoculars, seemd to show a disc and posisbly a mast under it. Watch ligth of sosme sort, I thought.
But over the next few minutes, it moved! It was Mars, so near that even with a pair of good binos, I could see a disc, even if no details. Although, has the global sandstorm subsided enough for details to be seen on Mars at all? How are the robots there? I can find no reports of conditions on the Red Planet since early last month, when Opportunity was still in hibernation. Curio's activity isn't affected, of course.
John
I was fooled by Mars this last weekend. Officiating at a stage rally on the moors in North East England, I camped the night before, on site. The moors are a military exercise area, with many 'out of bounds' and unexplained contructions around the camp. As dusk fell, with too much cloud to see any stars, there was a light just over the next moortop. It was yellow enough to be a sodium lamp, and with my binoculars, seemd to show a disc and posisbly a mast under it. Watch ligth of sosme sort, I thought.
But over the next few minutes, it moved! It was Mars, so near that even with a pair of good binos, I could see a disc, even if no details. Although, has the global sandstorm subsided enough for details to be seen on Mars at all? How are the robots there? I can find no reports of conditions on the Red Planet since early last month, when Opportunity was still in hibernation. Curio's activity isn't affected, of course.
John