Mars!

Posted on October 29, 2005    Posted by John Scalzi      4 Comments

It’s not the best picture of Mars you’ll ever see, true enough. But it’s the first picture of Mars you’ll ever see taken by me. As you may or may not know, tonight Mars is as close to Earth as it will be in more than a decade, a mere 41 million miles away, close enough that my telephoto lens had no problem making out the fact the planet is a disk, and not just a point. This is just the sort of thing that makes you want to spend a stupid amount of money on a telescope that allows you to hook up your camera to it, to take even better pictures. But I’ve done all my major spending on myself for 2005. It’ll have to wait. In the meantime: Mars! It’s red and everything.