Mars Doubles In Brightness
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Dr. Tony Phillips of NASA writes:
Step outside tonight around midnight and look east. About halfway up the sky you’ll see the planet Mars. It looks like an intense red star, the brightest light in the midnight sky other than the Moon.
Here’s the amazing part: Between now and the end of October, Mars, already so bright, will double in brightness again. Imagine that.
Mars is getting brighter for the simple reason that it’s getting closer. Earth and Mars have been converging for months and on Oct. 30th at 0319 Universal Time, the two worlds will be just 69 million kilometers apart - the closest approach of Mars and Earth for the next 13 years.
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