Mars is putting up a lot of shows for Skywear this month.
Until most October-October, Mars will be brighter than anyone around it in the night sky, giving people a clear view of the red planet. Mars is also far from the days of reaching “opposition”, a spatial alignment in which the Earth, Mars and the Sun form a straight line in space, with the Earth in the center.
13 October. Mars will be opposed. On that day, Mars will rise along the sets of the Sun, reaching the top of the night sky at midnight, and then the Sun will set again with the passing of the es. If it were a clear night, the skycars could expect the red planet to advance anything else in its field of sky.
Opposition to Mars usually occurs every 26 months. Because Earth is so close to the Sun, it orbits Mars twice as long as it takes Mars to complete one orbit. Resistance can occur at any stage of Mars’ orbit, according to NASA, but occasional adjustments occur when Mars is closer to the Sun, as it is this year.
Mars reached its orbital point when it was closest to the Sun – a rotation event – known as a perihelion. These events are considered rare because, according to NASA, they only occur once every 15 or 17 years.
The best way to see Mars is to go out early in the evening and look up at the horizon in the eastern sky. If conditions are clear, Mars will be the brightest object in that region of the sky, appearing as a red, reddish-orange “star.”
Mars will be visible to the naked eye for most of October, but amateur astronomers with telescopes will also be able to see glimpses of features on the planet’s surface.
On Tuesday, October, the closest approach to Earth took place was March 6, when, according to NASA, the two planets separated by only 38.6 million miles. It will not pass close to this earth again until 2035.
For skydivers in the Northern Hemisphere, this year’s protests are expected to be particularly impressive due to the position of Mars in the sky.
“Indeed, Mars will not be relatively close and in a good position for northern observers until it reaches the opposition in 2052. This year’s protests will be even more significant,” Gary Seronic, consulting editor at Sky & Telescope magazine, said in a statement. .
