Close Encounters: Mars at Opposition

In December 2007, the Mars closest approach and opposition will occur within a week of each other. This is an exciting time for astronomers and planetary geologists to image and study our planetary neighbor. On December 18, Mars will be the closest it has been in the last two years, reaching a distance of 55 million miles from Earth. This series of images was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on December 1-7, within two weeks of its December 2007 closest approach. Each image shows the planet rotating about 90 degrees from the next image. This gives astronomers a full-globe look at the Red Planet.

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Science & Technology

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• aviation
• space
• hubble
• telescope
• heritage

[tahir2008999]

fakeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[epicenur]

Seriously, If it's a hoax, why don't we wait and watch to find out?... by the way, you commented on my video too.

[epicenur]

:| it was about the size of a penpoint in the sky, but no one knows. Let's just wait?

[ChineseCow709]

no i checked the internet, my science teacher told me and all that crap...the only way we are going to find out...is to wait for the event(if it occurs)

[1BustedMyth]

ChineseCow, The whole aug 2009 Mars closest aproach.

The event actualy happened in 2003 and was nowhere near as big as the claims. I think 2016 is the next one.

Someone thinks its funny to keep changing the year in the email and sending it out, 2009 is the latest version!

A friend gave me the email two weeks ago and i checked the claims, even the distances claimed were wrong, have to wait till 2016, but you will still need a telescope. Cheers

[ChineseCow709]

whats a hoax

[1BustedMyth]

ChineseCow, Sorry dude its a hoax!

[ChineseCow709]

it will be the closest ever in august 09 check it out!!!