Tonight's the Night Mars Will NOT Look as Big as the Full Moon
id="attachment_72230" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 440px">href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/10aug27_430_2.jpg">src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/10aug27_430_2.jpg" alt="" title="The night sky on August 27, 2010. Image from EarthSky.org" width="430" height="430" class="size-full wp-image-72230" />class="wp-caption-text">The night sky on August 27, 2010. Image from EarthSky.org
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I wasn't going to write an article about the href="http://www.universetoday.com/14701/mars/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Mars-href="http://www.universetoday.com/46646/moon/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Moon Hoax this year because I thought it was too pass� — we've written articles about this email-circulated fallacy every year since 2003 and another article would be like beating a dead horse because surely, there's no one out there anymore that actually believes Mars can look as big as the href="http://www.universetoday.com/20056/full-moon/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">full Moon. But I just looked at some stats and saw that our article on the topic from 2007, href="http://www.universetoday.com/11448/will-the-mars-look-as-big-as-the-moon-on-august-27-nope/">"Will Mars Look as Big as the Full Moon On August 27? Nope" has gotten like a gazillion hits the past few days, so obviously people are Googling the topic, wondering if Mars will look as big as the full href="http://www.universetoday.com/20499/moon-today/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Moon tonight. Short answer: No. If you looked at the night sky last night, Mars was not as big as the full Moon then, and it won't be that big tonight. Moreover, it won't be that big, ever. It is impossible for Mars to ever look as big as the full Moon. And this year (2010) in August, Mars is just barely visible, as a faint object low in the west after href="http://www.universetoday.com/17959/sunset/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">sunset. Take a look at the sky chart above fromhref="http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/best-time-to-see-mars-in-2010"> EarthSky.org which shows you where it is. And you can read more href="http://www.universetoday.com/44454/about-mars/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">about Mars in 2010 at thehref="http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/best-time-to-see-mars-in-2010"> EarthSky.org website, which is a great resource for all sorts of science topics and is written by some of the world's top scientists./> (...)
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