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Enter the Red Planet: A Guide to the Upcoming Mars 2014 Opposition Season
Astrophotographers are already getting some great images of Mars, such as this sequence captured by Efrain Morales Rivera on January 9th, 2014.
Get those telescopes ready: the coming months offer Earthbound viewers some great views of the planet Mars.
Mars reaches opposition for 2014 on April 8th. This is approaching season represents the best time to observe Mars, as the Red Planet is closest to us in April and rises in the east as the Sun sets opposite to it in the west. (…)
Read the rest of Enter the Red Planet: A Guide to the Upcoming Mars 2014 Opposition Season (1,690 words)
© David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/109010/enter-the-red-planet-a-guide-to-the-upcoming-mars-2014-opposition-season/
