Mars Offers Rare Close-Up

Society | October 30, 2005, Sunday // 00:00
Mars Offers Rare Close-Up Mars was visible with a naked eye in the early hours of Sunday, reports say. Photo by nasa.gov

The Red Planet has come within 43.1 million miles of the Earth on Saturday night.

It will not orbit so close to the Earth again until 2018.

Sky watchers from all over the world have enjoyed the rare spectacle, when the Red Planet was visible even with a naked eye.

Mars has appeared as a fiery yellow point of light in the eastern sky, media reported.

Amateurs with a medium sized telescope should have been able to pick out the different terrain on the planet and its cloud features.

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