Tagged: Mars - Adam Lundie - Eatons Hill Observatory

Mars is currently at it's closest to Earth since 2003, and appears as a brilliant red star in the sky. Unfortunately it is also suffering from a global dust storm, slowly abating.

Mars is currently at it's closest to Earth since 2003, and appears as a brilliant red star in the sky. Unfortunately it is also suffering from a severe global dust storm, showing no signs of abating. This means even the polar ice caps are hard to see, let alone any surface features.

For a period of three mostly cloudy nights, the planet Mars and Pluto were within 1.5 degrees of each other.

Although Mars is at it's biggest and brightest this week, it's so small, it's a difficult subject to get any detail out of.