MarsWatch 1996-1997

Images of Mars from Astronomers Around the World


Linking Amateur and Professional Mars Observing Communities

for Observational Support of the Mars Pathfinder Mission


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15 February 1997

CCD images obtained from the 1-m telescope at Alma-Ata Observatory, Kazakhstan, by Academicians Victor Tejfel, Vladimir Vdovichenko, and colleagues, as part of the International Amateur-Professional Marswatch project. These images have great value because of the location of Alma-Ata Observatory halfway around the world from most of the U.S. Marswatch observers. Thus, they cover the opposite hemisphere of Mars as images on the same night in the Western hemisphere, allowing full global coverage to be obtained by combining the data sets.


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