The photographer of the following Mars images is Jean-Luc Dauvergne. Jean-Luc has really made most of the 2010 Mars approach with the telescope on the top of Pic du Midi, southern France, and The Imaging Source astronomy camera. This is also the first time we received images taken with GigE astronomy camera.

Here is the picture in color. It was also featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day on Feb.05: