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This image of Mars was taken with a photographic outfit, not a telescope. The image shows the martian south polar cap (bright spot at the bottom), clouds near the limb of the planet, and dark markings in the center. It shows that you do not need a big telescope to see something on Mars. You do need a good telescope to see and record a lot of detail, however. The plate scale on the camera sensor was 2.1 arc-seconds per pixel.

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