Mars To Glow At Its 'Brightest' On Monday

Red planet Mars will be brightest and closest “it can get” to earth tomorrow, giving sky gazers an opportunity to see it with naked eyes.

“On March 3, Mars was at opposition to sun because of which it would be brightest and closest it can get to earth on March 5,” General Secretary of Planetary Society of India N Raghunandan said.

In positional astronomy, opposition defines that position of a celestial object when it is on the opposite side of the sun in the sky when viewed from earth as reference, Director of NGO Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) C B Devgun said.

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