On: First space images captured by balloon-borne teles...

[Aperocky]

That's still equivalent to an martian atmosphere above.

[sandworm101 → Aperocky]

Except thay the mars atmosphere contains considerable amoints of dust and weather. Earth's atmosphere at these altitudes is bone dry and homogeneous. Presssures may be similar but the optical properties are totally different.

[chongli → Aperocky]

Still good enough to take some great infrared pictures. Sure, it’s not even close to the same league as JWST, but most astronomers on the planet are jumping over each other to submit proposals for observation on that.

[bee_rider → Aperocky]

That is an interesting note, but I’m not sure how much intuition it adds. Mars somewhat famously have not a ton of atmosphere, right?

[Tepix → Aperocky]

Yes, both are very thin indeed, Mars has 6-10 millibars vs 1013 millibars at Earth sea level.