An Interplanetary Weather Forecast for Mars

• Published in: Physics Today
• Main Author: Ladbury, Ray
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AIP Publishing 1999
• Subjects: General Physics and Astronomy; Hubble; North Pole; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2802809; https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-pdf/52/8/23/11144623/23_1_online.pdf

Astronomers are used to seeing strange things when they turn their telescopes toward the Red Planet—some of them tantalizingly, and often deceptively, Earthlike. The image above, a stereographic projection centered on Mars's north pole, was returned by the Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Plan...