Mars is currently about 60 million miles away from Earth, and the moon is only about 240,000 miles away. The distance scale is way off. If it were, your right thumb would be roughly 500 feet away.
Mars has been appearing bigger and brighter ... world with our space and astronomy calendar. SpaceX launched two private moon landers at once: one built by Firefly Aerospace of Texas and another ...
Times for the moon passing in front of Mars will vary, so be sure to check ... the sun from the vantage point of Earth. As the two planets travel along their orbital paths, Earth will be between ...
However, because the moon far outshines Mars, the planet may be hard to spot when the two are closest together. "[The occultation] happens due to our solar system being quite flat, and so all the ...