I can look at Mars, too.
Well, this is one of those times when it's kind of boring to be me. I'm getting digital images, sending them down, but none are getting released. I've seen some damn cool stuff in the last two weeks, but it's forbidden to talk about them, cause there's usually a one-year window during which the observations are the property of the scientist who had them created. Sure there are the occasional exceptions, like the HUDF image that got released recently in an attempt to remind people that I take exciting photos.

So, until the next release of an image, I thought I'd dig around my image archive and come up with something older. I figured since Mars was all the rage, I'd pull up some work that I did with my buddy the Mars Global Surveyor, a nifty piece of work that's orbitting the planet that Opportunity and Spirit are rolling around on. Hey girls, look up and wave from time to time! This will be interesting, cause I'll be somewhat stealing some Mars wind from the rover gals and some weather wind from my pals, the Goes satellites, and tell a little story about the weather on Mars as reported in October of 2001.

Dusty. Dusty dusty dusty. Desert have phenominon called sandstorms which are huge nasty affairs that involve tops layers of sand and dust getting whipped around until they can form massive walls of choking sand. One of those would seriously pit the hell out of my mirror, so I'm glad I'm safely up here in orbit. Well, when your whole planet is one big desert, you can get some nasty sandstorms. Such it was on Mars where a sandstorm engulfed the entire planet. They swung me around to get some shots of the nastiness, and you can see some shots before and during the storm here. They've even worked up a video showing how it spread out over the surface of the planet, which can be found here.

So hey, you gals on the surface be careful.