Simviation Forum - Martian Highlights in the Moonlight

Reply #15 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 7:41pm

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I saw Mars quite large today:

Picture of large Mars

Carlo Wink

Since Mars is the topic of the thread, let me recommend a good book series on the red planet:

Kim Stanley Robinson:

Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars

Quite believable even if it is science fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

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Reply #16 - Aug 26^th, 2010 at 7:14am

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I saw Mars quite large today:

Picture of large Mars

Carlo Wink

Come back.................you forgot your coat Grin

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Reply #17 - Aug 26^th, 2010 at 1:14pm

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I think Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles was the best SF book on Mars.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #18 - Aug 26^th, 2010 at 3:49pm

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patchz wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 1:14pm:

I think Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles was the best SF book on Mars.

Tell you what, Larry. I'm still waiting for the email from the library on the book that expat recommended. I'll pick up a copy of Martian Chronicles at the same time and get back with you.

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Reply #19 - Aug 27^th, 2010 at 2:06pm

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H wrote on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 6:49pm:

alrot wrote on Aug 25^th, 2010 at 11:06am:

If mars would reach a distance that fit in the disc of the moon or even the half or quarter, it would be because it broke its orbit around the sun and the gravitational pull will kill every living thing on the earth. It will be close enough for anyone to see details on its surface using a binoculars 7x50.
Trust me.

If everyone remembers (and I think we're stuck on it), we had that misinformation presented last year. However, I recently read an article (evidently, no one here has read it) where they seemed to expect us to have colonized the moon by 2084 (not so likely in this century, let alone my lifetime); So my query, alrot, is not what Mars will appear like (since you'd be standing on it) but, rather, what the backdrop of Earth and our Moon will appear like next to either moon Phobos or Deimos (sp.) in the martian night sky.

Ok Its being raining almost everyday I took my Cellphone and took this shot last night 30º

By a good coincidence the full moon is with the opposition of Mars ,and yesterday they had almost 5º separation one another .See?

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Reply #20 - Aug 27^th, 2010 at 5:33pm

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alrot wrote on Aug 27^th, 2010 at 2:06pm:

Ok. Its being raining almost everyday I took my Cellphone and took this shot last night 30º
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By a good coincidence the full moon is with the opposition of Mars, and yesterday they had almost 5º separation one another. See?

I may not if you're on Mars... but, first off, I was amazed to read that your posts seem to indicate that you've been hiding out on Mars; how is it that Mars is in your picture if you are standing on it?
Secondly, which moon is in the picture? If that's the Moon that's accompanied Earth for the many millenia, we've (Earth) lost it from its orbit and Mars may be in big trouble.

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Reply #21 - Aug 27^th, 2010 at 6:55pm

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Ops..I couldn't set my 6inch retractor one ,as I said lot of rain and it weigh too much for setting it one night

actually was Jupiter(Both Look the similar to the naked eye) .Ops my mistake but Mars Opposition was in January ,Mars is too far away from earth and the next approach(the true moment when gets close to earth) will be in 2012 as always every 2 years..

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Mars/marsopps.html

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Reply #22 - Aug 28^th, 2010 at 2:06pm

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aussiewannabe wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 3:49pm:

patchz wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 1:14pm:

I think Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles was the best SF book on Mars.

Tell you what, Larry. I'm still waiting for the email from the library on the book that expat recommended. I'll pick up a copy of Martian Chronicles at the same time and get back with you.

I read the book back in the mid sixties. It was much better than the TV mini-series in 1980. I just found out there is a new movie in development for 2013. Might be good, depending on the actors, director, etc.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #23 - Aug 28^th, 2010 at 3:19pm

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alrot wrote on Aug 27^th, 2010 at 6:55pm:

Ops..I couldn't set my 6inch retractor one ,as I said lot of rain and it weigh too much for setting it one night.
actually was Jupiter(Both Look the similar to the naked eye) .Ops my mistake but Mars Opposition was in January, Mars is too far away from earth and the next approach(the true moment when gets close to earth) will be in 2012 as always every 2 years..
http://spider.seds.org/spider/Mars/marsopps.html

alrot, I'm not observationally concerned with the Martian celestial oppsition -- I'm concerned with the Terran oppositon... in respect to the Earth as seen from Mars. I'm not wanting to wait 3/4 of a quarter century (or, most probably, more).

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Reply #24 - Aug 29^th, 2010 at 3:34pm

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I love the Mars Diaries books.

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Reply #25 - Oct 9^th, 2010 at 12:05pm

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Sorry to dig up an old post. Do forgive me, but I'll just leave this link right here... http://www.spacevidcast.com/2010/08/11/zomg-marz-as-big-as-teh-moonz11111/

Don't let the wording in the link fool you. That "slang" was done completely out of the norm for the site.

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Reply #26 - Oct 9^th, 2010 at 12:44pm

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expat wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 7:14am:

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I saw Mars quite large today:

Picture of large Mars

Carlo Wink

Come back.................you forgot your coat Grin

Matt

I don't think we will ever be able to take the Planets; Mars and Uranus, seriously ever again... Roll Eyes

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Reply #27 - Oct 9^th, 2010 at 3:16pm

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Jeph wrote on Oct 9^th, 2010 at 12:05pm:

Sorry to dig up an old post. Do forgive me, but I'll just leave this link right here... http://www.spacevidcast.com/2010/08/11/zomg-marz-as-big-as-teh-moonz11111/
Don't let the wording in the link fool you. That "slang" was done completely out of the norm for the site.

This link on the same site is was more appropriate to my inquiry:
http://www.spacevidcast.com/2009/08/24/would-you-take-a-one-way-ticket-to-mars
...we'll send Foz one so he can get there free -- just for the fun of it... and I'm sure he'll make sure there's internet.

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Reply #28 - Oct 9^th, 2010 at 4:01pm

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I'm a member at that site that handles the official Q&A stuff there. Foz, if you don't put Mars on the information super highway, I'll personally see that your spacesuit is as comfortable as a Cessna 152 cockpit at 18,000 ft. Wink

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Reply #29 - Oct 9^th, 2010 at 5:14pm

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Jeph wrote on Oct 9^th, 2010 at 4:01pm:

I'm a member at that site that handles the official Q&A stuff there. Foz, if you don't put Mars on the information super highway, I'll personally see that your spacesuit is as comfortable as a Cessna 152 cockpit at 18,000 ft. Wink

Tee-Hee!... Grin

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http://www.spacevidcast.com/2009/08/24/would-you-take-a-one-way-ticket-to-mars/

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Paul...on Planet Earth...(The Real World!)... Grin

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