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Author: * Sokni Hvitaskald -
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Date: Sep 29, 2007 - 21:01
Mars in the Morning: Red Planet Grows Brighter
By Joe Rao
SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
posted: 28 September 2007
06:51 am ET
Mars is coming!
You've probably heard that line before – no doubt fairly recently, thanks to a bogus e-mail that unfortunately received wide circulation on the Internet this summer with promises of Mars being as big as the full moon.
But this fact is absolutely true: Mars, the only planet whose surface we can see in any detail from the Earth, is now moving toward the best viewing position it will provide to us until the year 2014. Planet watchers have already begun readying their telescopes.
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