Mars Opposition will bring the Red Planet closer to Earth on July 27

Mars opposition on July 27: Mars will come to its closest point to the Earth in 15 years, roughly at the same time as the total lunar eclipse and the moon of blood. (Image: NASA)

Fifteen years after coming closer to Earth, Mars will be close to our planet again this week. The red planet will be 57.6 million kilometers from Earth on July 27 in a celestial event called opposition – and event in which the Sun and the Earth line up in a straight line with a third planet. In 2003, the year of the previous opposition of Mars, the red planet had come to 3.2 million km from our planet, the closest distance between the two planet in 60,000 years.

Arvind Paranjpe, director of the Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai, "The distance between Mars and Earth is between 100 million km and 56 million km, and Mars and Earth will be about 57.6 million km away. others on July 27. These two planets are approaching almost equally every 15 to 17 years. "

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Mars and the Earth are the third and fourth planets of the solar system, and are the nearest neighbor planet one of the other. But the distance between them continues to vary each year because the planets reach different points in their orbit around the Sun. On July 27, experts warned that a cloudy sky could hinder the observation of the March opposition. They recommended the use of a telescope, equipped with a lens with a 6-inch aperture, to witness the phenomenon. According to NASA, this event will not be reviewed until 2034, when the next inversion of Mars will be announced.

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