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  STONERS10 months ago

  "The red planet will shine brighter because it will be directly opposite the sun, reflecting the most light, and fairly close to Earth, only 55.5 million miles away. The full moon will appear nearby, rising about an hour later, said Horkheimer, host of the public television show "Star Gazer."

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    STONERS10 months ago

    "Mars will outshine the brightest star and won't be as noticeable in the sky for nine more years, Horkheimer said. The Hubble Space Telescope took a picture of Mars, which came closest to Earth on Dec. 18, but it will be brighter on Christmas Eve because of its position opposite the sun."

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  joeblowe9 months, 4 weeks ago

  Santa never DID need Rudolph. I have it on good authority that dealing with all those damn elves has put Santa in Betty Ford more than once -- and HIS nose is a much brighter red than Rudi's anyway. {;>D)=

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    Dicax_Maximus9 months, 4 weeks ago

    Mrs Santa has been after him about the sherry he drinks for years, alas to no avail....

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  joeblowe9 months, 4 weeks ago

  I have a serious question:

  If Mars is now at it's closest approach to Earth, why in the hell don't we have AT LEAST a bunch of spacecraft - if not quite yet astronauts - just about to land there? Man oh man. We are (apparently) perfectly willing to spend most of a $ trillion to kill Iraqis and others, but we can't spare a few measly billions to send some people to the next planet to see if there's any oil THERE? Stupid, stupid, stupid.

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    Dicax_Maximus9 months, 4 weeks ago

    Joe - It's not quite as simple as you think....

    Check the distances involved.... If you could travel at escape velocity (approx 17,000 MPH) it would take (in a straight line course, if such existed) approx 135 days...

    Don't get me wrong, I personally think that if man doesn't go for the planets / stars, it hasn't got much hope !!!

    As for oil, that'd require some form of biological life to have existed........

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      joeblowe9 months, 4 weeks ago

      Yeah, I know all that. The thing is - the orbits of the planets are pretty well known. NASA, JPL, everyone else knew well over 135 days ago exactly where Mars was going to be right now. Someone should have lit the candle under a few loads of hardware 135 days ago. THAT'S my point. And, I'm not 100% sure about the biological necessity in oil production. There could be A) a different sort of mechanism on Mars that we wouldn't NECESSARILY recognize as life or B) Hydrocarbons (Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen) is just a combination of elements. MAYBE it can , in fact, be created WITHOUT biologicals. (I was just attempting humor anyway...) Wait here's an example: DIAMONDS. I know, we all think Superman makes them by squeezing coal, but really it's just CARBON being squeezed and heated deep in the earth. And I -think- it's too deep to be coal. It's just elemental carbon. Ha - imagine burning diamonds to produce electricity. {8>D)=

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  quackpot9 months, 4 weeks ago

  Perhaps if we were to send a few politician-bodies there they could be reunited with their heads.

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  kriicket9 months, 4 weeks ago

  This is way too cool !! Glad we gave our son a telescope for his birthday.

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  Cityslicker9 months, 4 weeks ago

  Sorry but this is old news .

  Mars could be impacted by asteroid , is the new news 1 in 75 chance .

  Kind of corny caption , although bright the Moon is still the dominant object in the sky right now .

  Keep looking up , J.H. says .

  Look at Orion's sword one of the not so bright dots of light in his Sword is actually a galaxy .

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  danadoc9 months, 4 weeks ago

  THE RED PLANET, WITH THE MOON IN TOW,BOTH SEEM TO GLOW TOGETHER. IRONIC.

  DANADOC

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  slibillet9 months, 3 weeks ago

  hey this is Brian from superiorlabsinc.com and this is Just another example of global warming at it's finest, woke up to snow and was wearing a t-shirt by noon. I was just wondering when we would got to 24 hours of light or darkness a day. Either way it makes for a beautiful night...

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