Mars is approaching and there will be a total eclipse of the moon

July 9, 2018 – 10:28
It will be July 27th. Experts said that day, the red planet will be closer to Earth than ever before in 15 years. But there will also be another phenomenon that generates expectations.

July 27 will be a date to program. It is recommended to prepare a place to look at the sky and hope that the sky is clear. This day will be an extraordinary approach to Mars and simultaneously there will be a total eclipse of the moon.

Specialists at the San Luis Planetarium have reported that "Mars will be superbly close to the Earth like never in 15 years". The observatory noted that "in a phenomenon difficult to repeat in the lives of today's human beings, it will be located in the sky next to a blood moon with the stars of Capricorn in the background."

The experts said that the double phenomenon will be visible at sunset on July 27 and should turn to the southeast.

Martín Fernández, director of the San Luis Planetarium, detailed. "On Friday, July 27, the planet Mars will be in space very close to Earth at a distance that will be less than 60 million kilometers and such a pronounced approach in the order of the extraordinary since the last one was produced in the 2003 and the following can be seen in 2035, that is to say in just 17 years. "

" As if that was not enough, this great Martian approach which allows us to see at first sight the planet with its excessively bright characteristic red color, It will occur in the same area of ​​the sky where simultaneously the full Moon will be immersed in the shadow cone that the Earth projects into the sky. space through a total eclipse against the backdrop of the weak stars of Capricorn, a series of events that will not be repeated in the lives of today's human beings, "he added.

Source: rosario3.com