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The Cyber-Myth That Just Won’t Die: See Mars as Large as a Full Moon!!!
We’ve been here before… (All article images and bad photoshopping courtesy of the author).
It’s hard to believe that it’s been with us for a decade now.
Ten years ago this week, the planet Mars reached made an exceptionally close pass of the planet Earth. This occurred on August 27th, 2003, when Mars was only 56 million kilometres from our fair planet and shined at magnitude -2.9.
Such an event is known as opposition. This occurs when a planet with an orbit exterior to our own reaches a point opposite to the Sun in the sky, and rises as the Sun sets. In the case of Mars, this occurs about every 2.13 years.
But another myth arose in 2003, one that now makes its return every August, whether Mars does or not.(…)
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© David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2013. |
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