Great opposition to Mars: A red planet as close as possible to Earth | Express

According to the portal Cikavosti

Mars is more than the brightness of its light. Giant Jupiter According to the photographer Alan Dyer, according to As the Mars is heading south-east, a shiny path appears on the surface of the water, the rays of the small waves forming the rays of the Sun and the Moon ( sometimes Venus and Jupiter).

A photo of Dyer that he made near his home in Canada

In addition, Dyer noted that he had achieved a panoramic plan where we can see Mars and Jupiter with their "light paths" as well as the Milky Way The Path and Saturn in Sagittarius [19659004] It should be noted that each confrontation differs from a different distance between the Earth and Mars. The summer months are the most interesting, because at that time, Mars is as close as possible to the Earth. So, if the confrontation occurs for the winter, then the distance between the planets is about 100 million kilometers, but at the end of the summer it is reduced to 56-60 million kilometers

Among all known scientific conflicts, the most famous is that of September 5, 1877 From the United States, the world discovered the existence of two satellites Mars – Deimos and Phobos. In addition, in the same period, his Italian counterpart discovered the Martian "channels".

The last astronomers observed a "major" confrontation on August 28, 2003, when Mars approached Earth at a record 5,579 million kilometers. Mars in 2018 will almost repeat this result and will be at a distance of 5.555 million miles from us.