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Mars comes closest to Earth every other year, around the time of its opposition, when Earth is sweeping between the sun and Mars. Mars will be at opposition later this month, on October...
Today at 10:18 a.m. EDT (1418 GMT), Mars swoops within 38,568,816 miles (62,070,493 kilometers) of Earth, making a smooth close approach. This will be the closest the Red Planet will come...
On Wednesday (Nov. 30), Mars will make its closest approach to Earth, appearing bigger and brighter in the sky than usual and offering skywatchers an excellent opportunity to observe the Red...
Mars makes a close approach to Earth roughly every 26 months — the same frequency as opposition occurs, according to NASA.
For the continental U.S. and Canada, Mars’ closest approach comes on October 6, 2020, at at 10 a.m. EDT, 9 a.m. CDT, 8 a.m. MDT, 7 a.m. PDT, 6 a.m. Alaskan Time and at 4 a.m. Hawaiian Time....
These two images, taken 11 hours apart with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal two nearly opposite sides of Mars. Hubble snapped these photos as the red planet was making its closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years. Mars completed nearly one half a rotation between the two observations.
Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years in 2003 — and won't be that close again until 2287. Mars is relatively easy to spot in the night sky due to its bright orange-red...
As you can see in this video below, Mars and Earth are both on slightly elliptical orbits, which means they can occasionally get very close to each other. The closest possible encounter is when Earth is the furthest away from the Sun (aphelion) and Mars is the closest to the Sun (perihelion).
On October 6, 2020, Mars makes its closest approach to Earth until 2035. Earth orbits in a nearly circular path, completing a revolution every 365 days. Mars orbits in the ... [+]...
Mars is now in its warmest months, closest to the Sun in its orbit, resulting in a smaller than normal south polar ice cap which has largely sublimated with the approaching summer. The large regional dust storm appears as the brighter, redder cloudy region in the middle of the planet's disk.