On the night of May 23 Mars closer to Earth on the minimum distance for the last 11 years, according to NASA
As explained by the US space agency , shorter than the Earth’s orbit from the orbit of Mars, respectively, our planet revolves around the sun faster, but once in 15-17 years the Earth is on the line between the Sun and Mars.
this year, the world will be brought together on a particularly short distance – 75.3 million km. This is the closest in the past decade.
Watch Mars in the sky will be in a few weeks, then the planet will again begin to move away from each other.
According to NASA, the modern record of convergence has been set in August 2003, when Mars and Earth have reduced the distance to 56 million km
Scientists warn that this achievement will last a very long time -. following a similar rendezvous will take place only in 2287. The maximum distance between the Earth and Mars can reach 400 million kilometers when they are on opposite sides of the sun.
The US space agency reported that Hubble has focused on that portion of the sky where the planets will be confrontation. NASA experts said that in the coming days, Mars can be seen with the naked eye.
This will be the second mini-parade of planets in the current month. May 9 was as astronomers say, “the passage of Mercury across the solar disk.” The closest planet to the Sun was between him and the earth, and look on the background of fluorescent lights as a small black dot.
As reported by the “Observer” at NASA showed huge boulders evaporating on Mars.
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