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Mars seen by the Hubble space telescope in 2005.

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

a-mar02-00022

Date

2006-10-08

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth on the night of October 29. A dust storm, which is nearly in the middle of the planet in this view, is about 930 miles (1500 km) long measured diagonally, which is about the size of the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico combined.