Posted on Oct 1, 2020

APOD: 2020 October 1 - Solis Lacus: The Eye of Mars

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Solis Lacus: The Eye of Mars." Solis Lacus (Lake of the Sun) is located just left and below center of this image of Mars taken on September 22nd, 2020.

This changeable and elongated area resembling the human eye was first observed and drawn in 1704. Solis Lacus is roughly 500 miles long and 300 miles wide, and has a known tendancy for dust clouds. As a result, it can not only change its shape, but also can appear lighter at times. The Great Dust Storm of October 1973 started in the Solis Lacus region and grew rapidly to enshroud the entire planet. Another dust cloud, now known as the Great Thanksgiving Dust Storm of 1988, developed along the northern edge of Solis Lacus and eventually covered 70 percent of the southern hemisphere.

I wonder if Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons knew about this "Eye in the Sky."

APOD: 2020 October 1 - Solis Lacus: The Eye of Mars

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Good afternoon my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and thank you for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Thursday, October 1, 2020 entitled "Solis Lacus: The Eye of Mars."
Image: Solis Lacus - The Eye of Mars - Image Credit & Copyright - Damian Peach

This is both a beautiful and a haunting image of a nearby planet that would be death to any who touched down on it with life support. In God's infinite wisdom HE created the planet we call earth with perfect balance for life and HE sustains it despite our efforts or lack of effort. Of course at the end of this age all creation will be destroyed by fire - the birth pangs of the new heaven and earth.

APOD Background
"Explanation: As telescopes around planet Earth watch, Mars is growing brighter in night skies, approaching its 2020 opposition on October 13. Mars looks like its watching too in this view of the Red Planet from September 22. Mars' disk is already near its maximum apparent size for earthbound telescopes, less than 1/80th the apparent diameter of a Full Moon. The seasonally shrinking south polar cap is at the bottom and hazy northern clouds are at the top. A circular, dark albedo feature, Solis Lacus (Lake of the Sun), is just below and left of disk center. Surrounded by a light area south of Valles Marineris, Solis Lacus looks like a planet-sized pupil, famously known as The Eye of Mars . Near the turn of the 20th century, astronomer and avid Mars watcher Percival Lowell associated the Eye of Mars with a conjunction of canals he charted in his drawings of the Red Planet. Broad, visible changes in the size and shape of the Eye of Mars are now understood from high resolution surface images to be due to dust transported by winds in the thin Martian atmosphere."

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