On July 2018, Mars can be seen with naked eye from the earth
News24xx.com - In the next month, Planet Mars can be seen by citizens of the earth more bright in the sky at night. Mars will be at its brightest on July 31. At that time, Mars can even be seen with the naked eye. This will be good news for astronomy fans
The position of this red planet is only about 57.6 million kilometers or 35.8 million miles from Earth. This phenomenon is called perihelic opposition. The earth will pass directly between Mars and the Sun.
This phenomenon is quite special because apart from Earth, Mars will also reach the closest distance to the Sun which is called as the perihelion point.
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), perihelic opposition occurs every 15 to 17 years when the orbits of Earth and Mars are aligned and make the two planets in a close distance. The last time Mars was in this position was in 2003, when Mars was 56.17 million kilometers away from Earth.
"This is the closest distance in the last 60,000 years, and Mars will be easily visible to the naked eye," said an astronomer named Dean Regas, as quoted by Mother Nature Network.
"It will be difficult even to miss this phenomenon, and Mars will look like an orange lighthouse that rises in the southeast after sunset," he said.
"Mars will be much brighter than the other stars, brighter than Jupiter, almost as bright as Venus.You will see it every night for the next few months" he added.
For several weeks Mars will look very bright and then move away and look faded in mid-August. The Red Planet will not be this close to Earth until September 2035.
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