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Mars and the moon will be about four degrees apart on Wednesday evening. Christophe Lehenaff / Getty Images From northern lights sightings to meteor showers and a supermoon , November has been an ...
A green comet is flying past Earth for the first time in 50,000 years, offering skygazers a one-off opportunity to witness the celestial spectacle before it disappears from our Solar System ...
Our lunar neighbour has been crowding out the view – but it is finally giving way to rare visitor
The zodiac constellations of Mars's ecliptic are almost the same as those of Earth — after all, the two ecliptic planes only have a mutual inclination of 1.85° — but on Mars, the Sun spends 6 days in the constellation Cetus, leaving and re-entering Pisces as it does so, making a total of 14 zodiacal constellations.
The Constellation program (abbreviated CxP) was a crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009.The major goals of the program were "completion of the International Space Station" and a "return to the Moon no later than 2020" with a crewed flight to the planet Mars as the ultimate goal.
Mars 35' north of Saturn 42.0° East August 20, 2006 22:40:10 Mercury 31' north of Saturn 11.2° West August 26, 2006 23:09:47 Venus 4' north of Saturn 16.3° West September 15, 2006 20:32:28 Mercury 10' south of Mars 12.1° East October 24, 2006 19:44:11 Venus 43' north of Mars 0.6° West October 25, 2006 21:42:16 Mercury 3°56' south of Jupiter
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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet". [22] [23] Mars is among the brightest objects in Earth's sky, and its high-contrast albedo features have made it a common subject for telescope viewing.