[NormsRevenge]

This image captured by NASA's Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope shows Mars when it was approximately 43 million miles (68 million km) from Earth. On Sunday, October 30, the Red Planet will be 69.4 million kilometers (43.1 million miles) from Earth -- a distance that in galactic terms is less than wafer-thin and will not be equalled until 2018.(AFP/NASA/File)

[NormsRevenge]

The next time the planets will be closer than in 2003 will be in 2287.


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2287 .. Wow

[frankjr]

It looks like Rove is using his "powers" to bring Mars very close to Earth to distract from Fitzgerald's announcement.

[Brilliant]

We're doomed!

[Lucretia Borgia]

The sky's falling. The sky's falling.

[A message]

Cool, a mere 43.1 million miles away.

One trip there would count as being a United mileage plus 100k flyer for the next 430 years.

[thulldud]

"Nice planet. We'll take it!"

[Artemis Webb]

This is a 2 year old story. The close pass of Mars happened in 2003.

[old-ager]

> Mars will appear as a big orangey-yellow "star" in the east, an object so bright that it should be visible in almost any conditions of light pollution, says the US publication Sky & Telescope.

Saw it about two hours ago. And Venus was bright in the west, as it is so often.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was so much hype 2 years ago about Mars' closest approach in 60,000 years that some people thought it wouldn't be visible again for another 60,000 years.

I noticed Mars in the night sky a few nights ago. It didn't look a mile more than 42 million miles away.

[kidd]

I saw this last night, while taking the kids out for Halloween.

Could see the whole disk with the naked eye. And it was way brighter than anything else in the sky at the time. Really unusual.

I'll have to break out the telescope tonight.