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| Details are very blurry, even the NPC is very vague. Clear skies have been few and far between and the seeing has been very poor. Here’s to the 2009/2010 Mars apparition. A total of 56 imaging sessions completed with the majority in 2007. Good seeing. Jim Melka |
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| Color image on the left recorded by Jim Melka and Jim Moody with a 16-inch LX 200 in Jim Moody’s observatory. Poor seeing did not hinder us in recording ice clouds as a whitish haze over many parts of Mars. The images on the right with my 12-inch Newt show a similar scene with the addition of 2 equatorial cloud bands. Jim Melka |
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| The DBK color image shows that the NPC appears to be thinning at its Eastern (left) and Western (right) extremities. The green filter is the key to showing low altitude clouds speculated to be sublimated ice-gases in a warming Northern Spring environment. It matches the breadth of the NPC in color. The red image indicates the solid ice extent of the NPC. A lesser amount of NPC thinning in the April 15th images. Jim Melka |
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| What looks like a dust cloud near the Northeastern limb appears as a deeper and brighter hue than the surrounding desert in the color image. And it is very bright in red light. The coordinates of the cloud are 44.5N and 252W which is an area known as Aetheria. Good seeing. Jim Melka |
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| Twenty minutes of good seeing allowed recording both numerous surface and cloud features on Mars. Compare with images taken on Jan 20th, 2008 when Mars was twice as big. The seeing turned poor later while imaging Saturn. Jim Melka |
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