Mars will arrive tomorrow, Thursday, at the closest distance from Planet Earth To record a wonderful scene for astronomy lovers, an event that is difficult to repeat, as it is expected that such approach will re-appear in the year 2033.
Astronomical calculations of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research in Egypt indicate that the planet Mars will, on December 8, meet with the sun and the Earth, when it will reach the closest point to Earth (less than 80 million km), and in the evening there will be an additional scene, when The last full moon in 2022, which is the full moon of December, which is called the “cold moon”, moves in front of Mars, so that the planet disappears behind it, in a phenomenon called “occultation”.
More than one astronomical observatory around the world announced the opportunity for fans of following astronomical phenomena to follow a live broadcast of the phenomenon of the occultation of Mars behind the moon, including the “McDonald” Observatory at the University of Texas in Austin, where the observatory broadcasts a live broadcast of the “occultation” phenomenon on December 8, at 9:00 a.m. 00 p.m.
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And the “cold moon” is the name given in North America to the full moon of December. Because it’s the time of year when the cold air causes the temperature to drop.
The planet, half the size of Earth, has a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide, summer temperatures of a maximum of 20 degrees Celsius, and winters at the poles of minus 130 degrees Celsius.
Despite these conditions, Mars continues to fascinate astronomers and planetary scientists, who see it as one of the places in the solar system where life may have originated, and may still exist.
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