Astonishing realistic nice Mars surface simulation! #3058
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Be sure about UTC vs. DT! Also when you observe from any significant distance, light time comes into play. |
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But Stellarium doesn't simulate Mars' sky in any way, just uses the skylight model for the Earth... And the photos from Perseverance that you show in your tweets seem to be color-manipulated, because the Martian sky is unlikely to ever look blue (except for the solar aureole part, which is usually violet). Maybe only at super-clear weather, when there's almost no dust in the air, but then the sky would be really dim. |
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The Mars surface simulation regarding sky color, sky brightness and surface brightness is astonishingly precisely matching the real observations seen by the Navcam pair on Perseverance Rover! Great work! Stellarium actually helped me here to verify my UTC clock display I recently added and noticed that the image meta data as spacecraft clock in the NASA PDS raw images is off by more than a minute, at least from what I see about the zero point of the Mars2020 mission clock! Check out my daily automated Perseverance Rover album: https://areo.info/mars20
Recently found the Mars moons and one orbiter in the Navcam images and could verify the moons with Stellarium. For MGS I used https://eyes.nasa.gov to exclude other more recent orbiters and then Cosmographia and a downloaded SPICE file both from https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov .
Phobos:
https://twitter.com/areoinfo/status/1625025823005900800
https://twitter.com/areoinfo/status/1605071897145643008
Deimos:
https://twitter.com/areoinfo/status/1608231002245328896
the since 2007 defunct Mars Global Surveyor (MGS):
https://twitter.com/areoinfo/status/1617066814059737088
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