{"id":2421366,"date":"2005-10-29T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2005\/10\/29\/SPACE-com-Major-Dust-Storm-on-Mars-Visible-with-Backyard-Telescopes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T00:02:15","slug":"SPACE-com-Major-Dust-Storm-on-Mars-Visible-with-Backyard-Telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=2421366","title":{"rendered":"SPACE.com &#8212; Major Dust Storm on Mars Visible with Backyard Telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/bunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/2421366\/'>Review<\/a> of :<br \/>\n\t<a href='http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/051028_mars_storm.html'>http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/051028_mars_storm.html<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/url\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/051028_mars_storm.html'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a alt=\"More from wikimedia.org...\" title=\"More from wikimedia.org...\" href=\"http:\/\/wikimedia.org\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/d\/dd\/MBar_700.jpg\/250px-MBar_700.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>From the page: &#8220;A major dust storm has just broken out on Mars and the event will be visible this weekend with good-sized backyard telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is incredible. Amateur skywatchers around the world are planning to gaze at Mars Saturday night because it will be closer to Earth than anytime until the year 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The dust storm was no more than a small bright dot Thursday yet it was large and obvious Friday, as seen in images taken by Clay Sherrod at the Arkansas Sky Observatories.<\/p>\n<p>NASA took note and is monitoring signals from its Mars rovers, one of which has detected signs of the storm, SPACE.com has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The storm &#8220;will be quite obvious and plainly visible in even small telescopes from the Western Hemisphere for about the next week,&#8221; Sherrod said in an email to colleagues that was forwarded to SPACE.com.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>hmm I took my backyard telescope out to my backyard.  It promptly clouded up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/051028_mars_storm.html From the page: &#8220;A major dust storm has just broken out on Mars and the event will be visible this weekend with good-sized backyard telescopes. The timing is incredible. Amateur skywatchers around the world are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=2421366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2421366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2421366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2421366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2421366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}