Week of April 14th

This week we were able to do all the finishing Mars measurements. We calculated the difference between the size of Mars before and after. Unfortunately, we found that Mars before was larger. This is clearly impossible, Mars cannot be bigger a month before opposition, than on opposition. We believe that this was due to the magnification effect on the horizon. So, we needed to change the theory of our project, essentially. Instead, we just took the pictures of Mars from opposition in order to compare the size and distance from Earth. In our project, we decided to talk about the magnification effect and what our original project would have been. So, although it did not turn out the way we thought, it still worked out. The pictures from opposition still worked as an accurate size and distance measurement. We just could not do the comparison that we wished to do.