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Mars Image 2010/05/12(UT)

Damian Peach,Jim Melka
D.Peach,J.Melka

Damian Peach (350mm Celestron SCT)
Pretty good seeing. Again,extensive bright cloud over Tharsis around the volcanoes. NPC rift is again present.



[Damian Peach: Loudwater,Buckinghamshire,United Kingdom]
Jim Melka (300mm Newton)
First day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
Bright cloud near Olympus Mons on late afternoon limb.
Morning limb partially cloud covered. The Lemuria
NPC fragment visible in red-filtered image.

Hellas is mostly cloudy per the color and blue
filtered images. They also show clouds on the
morning limb from Oxia Palus continuing over the
NPC and then Southward over Cecropia and into
Umbra. NPC ice is on Cecropia visible in the red image.

[Jim Melka,St.Louis,Missouri U.S.A.]

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