Astronomy Picture of Day: Martian Analemma# Astronomy - 天文
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Martian Analemma
Digital Illustration Credit & Copyright: Dennis Mammana (Skyscapes)
Explanation: On planet Earth, an analemma is the figure-8 loop you get when you mark the
position of the Sun at the same time each day throughout the year. But similarly marking the
position of the Sun in the Martian sky would produce the simpler, stretched pear shape in this
digital illustration, based on the Mars Pathfinder project's famous Presidential Panorama view
from the surface. The simulation sho
Digital Illustration Credit & Copyright: Dennis Mammana (Skyscapes)
Explanation: On planet Earth, an analemma is the figure-8 loop you get when you mark the
position of the Sun at the same time each day throughout the year. But similarly marking the
position of the Sun in the Martian sky would produce the simpler, stretched pear shape in this
digital illustration, based on the Mars Pathfinder project's famous Presidential Panorama view
from the surface. The simulation sho