The Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster.Ĭaptures Mars near its closest conjunction to the Pleiades on March 3.īelow center, Mars is the bright yellowish celestial beacon only about 3ĭegrees from the pretty blue star cluster.Ĭompeting with Mars in color and brightness, Is presently wandering through the constellation Taurus, close on the sky to Saturn and Mars will drop to below a quarter of a degree. The image, a four-part mosaic, was captured in Venus was slowing rising in the pre-dawn sky, night by night, while The featured image was taken a few days prior, when When two planets pass on the night sky, they can usually be seen near each other for a week or more.Ĭonjunction, Venus and Mars passed within 4 degrees of each other earlier So close to Mars - about 5,800 kilometers above theĪPOD: 2022 March 29 - Venus and Mars: Passing in the Night With objects as small as 10 meters visible. To be a cratered, asteroid-like object in this Or perhaps from even more distant reaches of Names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Humboldt is the large impact crater to its north (left).ĪPOD: 2022 July 3 - Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars Very close to the southeastern edge of the Moon's Spectacular image with no exposure adjustments necessary. With the Moon in the foreground Mars was a mere 82 million kilometersįull Moon and full Mars were bright enough to provide the South Atlantic, southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean.ĪPOD: 2022 December 9 - Mars Rises above the Lunar Limbīehind the Moon, when viewed from locations acrossĪbout an hour after disappearing behind the lunar disk Of Mars will be visible from parts of the On January 3, when the Moon is in a waxing gibbous phase.Īre only ever visible from a fraction of the The next lunar occultation of bright planet Mars will be in the new year The last full Moon of 2022, sank toward the western horizon. Was recorded in this telescopic timelapse The lunar occultation of Mars happened just before sunrise. Seen from the city of Kosice in eastern Slovakia, Viewed from some locations across Europe and North America. Mars was occulted, passing behind the Moon when Other images, Curiosity carefully navigatedĪPOD: 2022 December 15 - Full Moon, Full Marsīoth bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. Windy past of Earth's planetary neighbor. This robotic rover has now been rolling across Mars for ten years and has helped Several hills covered with flat-topped rocks was taken last month by NASA's Some rocks, while wearing down the tops of other long-exposed stones. This sand can create differential erosion, smoothing over The carbon-dioxide wind on Mars can act like One reason for this is a process that is common to both Mars and Earth: Mars show many rocks that are unusually flat when compared to rocks on Earth. Why are there so many flat rocks on Mars? APOD: 2023 May 2 – Flat Rock Hills on Mars
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