See tropical Mars from Earth.
by John Tyburski
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Bring
out the telescopes because on April 8, Mars will come nearest to Earth as it
has since 2007 in a configuration astronomers call “opposition.” This is when
both Earth and Mars, the third and fourth planets out from the sun,
respectively, fall in a straight line out from our sun. If the skies are clear,
even with a small telescope one may view a number of topical Martian features,
including the polar ice caps... [Pending]
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