Mars

These  pics of mars were taken with my new ETX125 ec . On the 27/08/03  Mars made its closest approach to the Earth in nearly                    60,000 years - 55,758,006 km (34,646,418 miles). It shined at  magnitude -2.9 and cover an angular size of 25.1&quoot;.

Click here for Nasa HSP video clip of Mars.  

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this snapshot of Mars 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth. The two planets are 34,648,840 miles (55,760,220 km) apart. This image was made from a series of exposures taken between 6:20 p.m. and 7:12 p.m. EDT Aug. 26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Photo credit: NASA/J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI).