A Breathtaking Close Encounter With Mars
Earth and Mars will have a breathtaking close encounter in October 2005.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars.
Earth is racing toward Mars at a speed of 23,500 mph (37,800 km/h), which means the red planet is getting bigger and brighter by the minute. In October, when the two planets are closest together, Mars will outshine everything in the night sky except Venus and the Moon. You're another 50 miles closer: keep reading!
Westender, you know you are a grate photographer but how did you manage to get a pic from Mars :)
(at July 26, 2005 06:28 AM)
that's a professional secret landlandy :-)
(at July 26, 2005 04:08 PM)
NASA Science News for July 7, 2005
There's a rumor going around about Mars: It's racing toward Earth and soon to be as large ... as the full Moon?
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/07jul_marshoax.htm?list75319
The Science@NASA Podcast feed is available at http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.xml.
You are currently subscribed to snglist as: lena_ab@yahoo.com.
This is a free service.
To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa.gov/u?id=75319U&n=T&l=snglist
or send a blank email to leave-snglist-75319U@lyris.msfc.nasa.gov
Comments