I wrote about a week ago:

> I belong to the local amateur astronomy group here, the Astronomical
Society
> of Las Cruces (New Mexico). These people have been taking and sharing a
fair
> number of really nice photographs from their backyard observatories. Thirty
> to forty years ago, these would have been among the best professional
> photographs available. I've put up a number of them on one of our auxiliary
> webservers:
>
>        http://67.41.4.238/mars20030628.jpg
>        http://67.41.4.238/mars20030723.jpg
>        http://67.41.4.238/mars20030803.jpg
>        http://67.41.4.238/mars20030807.jpg
>        http://67.41.4.238/mars20030820.jpg

Last night, the Hubble Space Telescope, the world's best professional
telescope, took a close-up of Mars when it was just a scrapingly close 34,648,840
miles away. The Hubble website is completely jammed this morning with people
wanting to download the image. Downloads are taking as long as 20 minutes. As a
public service to the list, I've put the image up on one of our auxiliary
servers:

     http://67.41.4.238/mars20030826hubblefullres.jpg

This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken between 6:20
p.m. and 7:12 p.m. EDT Aug. 26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera
2. The picture was taken just 11 hours before the planet made its closest
approach.

An geographically annotated picture of the same image is also at:

     http://67.41.4.238/mars20030826hubbleannotated.jpg

Wirt Atmar

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