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Mars Swings Unusually Close to Earth

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the violating-personal-space dept.

amazon10x writes "Mars will come unusually close to the Earth on Saturday; the second time in 60,000 years. The last occurrence was in 2003. 'This is the best we're going to see Mars, so we should strike the iron while it is hot,' said Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Telescope magazine. The Red Planet will be 43.1 million miles from Earth at 11:25pm [Eastern time]." Update by J : Starting a few hours after sunset, look fairly high in the eastern sky.

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  1. again? by utnow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesn't something like this happen every year these days? I feel like every few months I read that, "Mars is closer than it's been in a REALLY REALLY long time." I mean I'm sure each of these has it's own special significance, but for us average people on the ground all this means is that the red dot is a bit larger...