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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Revisiting a stone cold classic 👍

On 24 February 2007, ESA’s Rosetta made its only flyby of Mars & captured images of the Red Planet 🛰️

Several different colour composites were made & published at the time, but I decided today to (waste time &) see what I could come up with from the archival data 💻

So here’s my RGB image of Mars from 240,000km with a resolution of ~5km/pixel.

Credit: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS team/Mark McCaughrean CC BY 4.0

More info in thread below 👇

#SpaceScience

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• An image of Mars taken from quarter of a million kilometres by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft. Mars is mostly red-brown, darker in the lower half, with clouds to the north and ice and clouds to the south.