It’s prime time for the Red Planet - in 60,000

[dArKeR]

 FOR MONTHS VISIBLE only during morning hours, the Red Planet began August rising around 9:45 or 10 p.m. local daylight time and peeks above the horizon about four minutes earlier each night. Mars is now the third-brightest object in the nighttime sky, after the moon and Venus. To the unaided eye, Mars is by far the brightest “star” in the late-evening sky. Venus is currently too near the sun to be visible.

Astronomers measure brightness of stars and planets on a scale in which smaller numbers represent brighter objects. Already dazzling, Mars attains unusual brilliance this month, reaching magnitude -2.9 on Aug. 22 and staying that bright through Sept. 3. Venus can reach magnitude -4.0 or brighter.
       Anyone who has a telescope, no matter how modest it is, will probably want to find out what it can do with Mars. So what’s to be seen?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/947131.asp?0cv=CB20

America should be spending it's money and abilities on LIFE and not murdering Muslims for GOP/Bush Crime Family Oil.

http://darker0darker.tripod.com/

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. Mars is physically closer right now

and will not be so again for another 200 years. When the weather clears I'll pull out the 'scope!