Mars
Mars
Watch
This website was created to provide links to information on the weather events of Mars. Those events being clouds, dust storms, Polar Hoods, and the Polar Ice Caps. On each website, the author's name is provided, along with any other credit due. Also featured on this website are my amateur images of the Mars 2005 apparition and the 2007-2008 apparition. See link at bottom for the images. Of note is the late October dust storm of 2005. Some of the images were featured on CNN, MSNBC and other major news networks along with Astronomy Magazine. Mars 2009 -2010 is here. As I write this, April 15, 2009, no amateur images of Mars have come in yet. Mars can be found in the early morning sky, and I'm guessing with scopes 12 inches +, albedo features can be had. I fully expect the first images to start coming in within the next few weeks. I'll start giving it go around June. 2007 - 2008 was very disappointing. Perhaps 2009 2010 can make up for it and I honestly can't see it being much worse than 2008. A special thanks to Jeff Beish and Don Parker. Two pioneers of Mars observation and study who I'm lucky to be acquainted with.
For the latest Mars science news and weather discussion, join the MarsWatch yahoogroup. A small but growing group with a few members who happen to be the best amateur, published authorities on Mars and its weather.
Mars Apparition 2007 - 2008 images by Joel Warren
Informational Links
Clouds Polar Caps
Discrete Topographic and Orographic Clouds of Mars Mars Once Shuffled Its Icy Poles
Detection and Monitoring of H20 and CO2 Ice Clouds on Mars The North Polar Hood during the Dust Clouded Period
Are Cloud Bands on Mars Rare or Not? APOD Search Results for "polar and Mars"
Martian Clouds Frosty Mars 'Mountain' Poses Mystery
APOD Search Results for "clouds and Mars" The Mysterious Martian Mountains of Mitchel
MOC Images of Clouds and Dust Storms The Southern Polar Regions
MOC & MGS Images of Volcanoes (Orographic Clouds) MOC & MGS Images of Polar Caps and Frost
Dust Storms General "Must Read" Information and Maps
The Sand Ships of Mars The Opposition Cycle of Mars
The October 2005 Aram Dust Event Observing the Planet Mars
The October 2005 Dust Storm Communications in Mars Observations
Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer Ralph Aeschliman Planetary Cartography and Graphics
The 2001 Great Dust Storms Google Mars
APOD Search Results for "dust and Mars" MSSS MGS/MOC Narrow Angle Gallery
Large Martian Dust Devils Caught in the Act
The Worst Weather in The Solar System
MOC & MGS Images of Dust Storms
Mars Apparition 2007 - 2008 images: Joel Warren
Mars Apparition 2005 images: Joel Warren
Jupiter 2007- 2008 Images: Joel Warren
If you have a relevant link, question, or comment please e-mail me
Images on this page courtesy of APOD and Joel Warren
In memory of Commander Rick Husband STS - 107
