>Searched in vain for Nix Olympica (or orographic clouds thereupon)...
I'm guessing you're partly working on the strength of that story by Sheehan
et. al. in S&T about finding the Tharsis calderas.
In the same issue was a story about how to find Phobos and Deimos. These
were both cruel. Da Weasel talked years ago about the possibilities of
finding those tiny close moons. Both those articles were way out of context
for virtually all of us.
As you likely know, humans didn't know about that big mountain till the
Mariner probes flew. Took fancy enhancement on this week's Hubble closeup
for the Tharsis volcanoes to show. For crying out loud, how many of us are
Barnard at the eyepiece of the Lick night after night?
Yammv certainly, but I found those stories to be misleading and seriously
not in a nice way.
Now how about that polar cap!
Clear skies at New Moon!
DDK
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