Friday, December 30, 2022

Mars on 12/25/2022

 The Christmas skies were clear this evening, but the cold wave that passed through Charlotte from the Midwest gave us very transparent but unstable skies. Mars was difficult to image; the planet appeared to be under rippling water, with surface details appearing and disappearing every few seconds. 


This image shows the planet with linear wavelet processing. I pushed the processing as far as I could to enhance albedo features, while trying to perserve a "natural" image of the planet. The visible features can be identified from the Mars map of the area (below).



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