There will be a historical approach from Mars to Earth and a total eclipse of the Moon – Society

At the twilight of July 27 thousands of spectators, astronomers and amateurs will fix their eyes on the southeast sky to try to appreciate, to the naked eye or with optical instruments, two spectacular astronomical events that are of great importance because they are not so common, but also have the added value of occurring simultaneously in time, and if that was not enough they will also occur in the same region of the sky.

Martín Fernández, who has been working for years in the direction 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 – he added – that in the order of the extraordinary since the last occurred in 2003 and the next can be seen in 2035 , "As if that were not enough," he concludes, "this great Martian approach, which at first glance will allow us to see the planet with its characteristic bright red color, 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 space by crossing a total eclipse with the faint stars of Capricorn as a backdrop. A series of events that will be difficult to repeat in the lives of today's human beings "

Julian Akira, who operates optical instruments in the scientific recreational activities of the San Luis Planetarium, He noted that with amateur telescopes, you can see details of the surface of Mars that are usually complicated like their polar ice caps and, in the case of the Moon, you can see its characteristic plains, craters and mountain ranges