File:Mars without Fastie finger.png

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This view of Mars, the sharpest photo ever taken from Earth, reveals small craters and other surface markings only about a dozen miles (a few tens of kilometres) across. (The spatial scale is 5 miles, or 8 kilometres per pixel). The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image on August 24 2003, just a few days before the red planet's historic "close encounter" with Earth. Retouched image to remove the ACS "Fastie finger".

Date

24 August 2003

Source

Author

NASA/ESA, J. Bell (Cornell U.), and M. Wolff (Space Science Inst.) Additional image processing and analysis support from: K. Noll and A. Lubenow (STScI); M. Hubbard (Cornell U.); R. Morris (NASA/JSC); P. James (U. Toledo); S. Lee (U. Colorado); T. Clancy, B. Whitney and G. Videen (SSI); and Y. Shkuratov (Kharkov U.)

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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.

The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:36, 19 November 2015	1,050 × 1,050 (1.02 MB)	PlanetUser	modified from original image - edited using Photoshop
	09:31, 19 November 2015	1,050 × 1,050 (1.02 MB)	PlanetUser	modified -- edited using Photoshop
	20:49, 9 November 2015	800 × 800 (737 KB)	HalloweenNight	Planum Australe on right side
	14:15, 6 November 2015	1,085 × 1,097 (1.2 MB)	HalloweenNight	Cut
	14:12, 6 November 2015	1,108 × 1,144 (1.2 MB)	HalloweenNight	Better cut
	18:44, 28 August 2014	1,164 × 1,164 (855 KB)	Dread83	{{Information \|Description=This view of Mars, the sharpest photo ever taken from Earth, reveals small craters and other surface markings only about a dozen miles (a few tens of kilometres) across. (The spatial scale is 5 miles, or 8 kilome...