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    Default Meet the red planet...

    By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars.

    Earth is racing toward Mars at a speed of 23,500 mph, which means the red planet is getting bigger and brighter by the minute. In October, when the two planets are closest together, Mars will outshine everything in the night sky except Venus and the Moon. (You're another 50 miles closer: keep reading!)

    It's only June, now, but Mars is already eye-catching. You can see it early in the morning, rising before the sun in the eastern sky, shining almost twice as bright as a 1st-magnitude star. A sky map, below, shows where to find Mars on Wednesday morning, June 29th, when it appears pleasingly close to the crescent Moon.

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    Default Re: Meet the red planet...

    Nice! Thanks for that link too.

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    Default Re: Meet the red planet...

    Yep! Mad is our site official astronomer...thankee sir.


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