Next month, on Jan. 15, Mars will be at opposition to the sun, when it will be in the sky all night; rising at sunset, reaching its highest point in the south in the middle of the night and ...

It will also be shining at its brightest for 2025 at magnitude -1.4; just a trifle dimmer than Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. On January 13, an occultation/eclipse of Mars by the full moon ...

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The European Space Agency (ESA) just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic terrain of the Red Planet's Acheron Fossae region. One of the photos shows ...