So am I right about Mars coming really close to Earth tomorrow and being visible tomorrow night Wednsday 10ct 10 2007?
2007-10-09 18:02:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, Mars is closest this year on December 18th. It won't be nearly as close as it was in 2003, but this is the best view of it until 2016. Mars rises about 11:00 pm right now.
2007-10-09 18:33:14 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your "news" is two years out of date! Mars gets close to the Earth every 26 months, and the last time that happened was October 30, 2005. The next time will be December 19, 2007. But Mars is visible every night right now, rising about 11 p.m. local time.
2007-10-10 02:49:14 · answer #2 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mars has been visible for months now and will be visible for many more to come.
There are no special dates when sky objects magically appear. It is true that sometimes they are more suitably located than at other times, but the planets and most other sky objects are visible for long periods of time and can be observed anytime they are above the horizon. Right now, depending on what time you look, Jupiter is still barely above the horizon in the early evening as are Neptune and uranus, Mars is nice and high in the sky a little later and saturn as well as Venus are visible in the early morning, just before sunrise.
Adolph
2007-10-10 02:02:32 · answer #3 · answered by Adolph K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it rather is the Cydonia area. Low-determination pictures interior the Seventies got here approximately to be taken while the easy got here approximately to be at only the incredible perspective to enhance some organic bumps on a hill in a manner that feels like a face to our eyes. of course, our brains are under pressure to look for many of those varieties (see pareidolia below), so we see a face as quickly as we see something with even a passing resemblance to a minimum of one. Richard Hoagland took the "face" on Mars and ran with it; he's been the main properly known purveyor of this actual little bit of woo. he's taken it quite a few steps farther. His difficulty is to explode pictures way previous their determination, and make fanciful claims approximately what he sees interior the distorted pictures. "extraterrestrial beings on the Moon" proponents do the comparable difficulty with "spaceships" they see in blown-up pictures of the floor of the a techniques edge of the Moon. we've been back to Mars and introduced lots larger-res pictures. It seems to be much less astounding in larger determination.
2016-12-14 12:54:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope you're not talking about that email that says Mars will be bigger than the moon. That was cute and amusing.
2007-10-09 20:12:46 · answer #5 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋