Oct 212014
Several days after the event, there are, so far as I’ve seen, still no good images from NASA. Feh. But here’s an interesting video from a mountaintop telescope in Tenerife showing the comet sliding by. Mars is *seriously* overexposes, but that’s a sad necessity in order to spot the comet. Interesting “flare” presumably due to the tail interacting with the atmosphere.
(This is the original video, not one of the “editorialized” version where crackpots yammer on about how this indicates a massive explosion on Mars, aliens, government,conspiracies, etc. Screw those guys.)
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