Conjunction colors (astronomy)
Aug. 24th, 2012 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
likethebeerToday's APOD has a photograph showing the trails of Saturn, Mars & Spica:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120823.html
What's cool (to me) is that you can actually see the colors that you can plainly see with your eyes but that are hard to explain. "Oh, Mars has a reddish hue," doesn't really capture it (I think this shows what someone I know says - that Mars is a pumpkin color).
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120823.html
What's cool (to me) is that you can actually see the colors that you can plainly see with your eyes but that are hard to explain. "Oh, Mars has a reddish hue," doesn't really capture it (I think this shows what someone I know says - that Mars is a pumpkin color).
