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Gary Boyle The Backyard Astronomer, Planet Mars, Sutbury – The Press Stories
This manual image, obtained on September 18, 2008, shows courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey of the Wales Marineris Hemisphere Mosaic Point
Written by Gary Boyle
Over the past few months, Mars has been gradually brightening and is now at its peak. It takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the Sun once, Mars is slightly away from the Sun and it takes 687 days to complete one fold.
Every 26 months or odd days, the Earth captures Mars slowly, allowing more detail to be seen on its surface through the telescope’s eye view. 60 million km on Oct. 6. When separated, Mars is large and bright.
The so-called “red” planet Mars appears orange rat…
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