Taking advantage of Mars’s closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory’s sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope snapped these pictures between April 27 and May 6, 1999

Taking advantage of Mars’s closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory’s sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope snapped these pictures between April 27 and May 6, 1999