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NASA Marsquake Data May Show Mars Has A Solid Inner Core, Like Earth
A new preprint study looking at data from NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat ...
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Mars at opposition: See the Red Planet all night long
Mars will reach a point in its orbit that astronomers call opposition. That evening, Mars will lie opposite the Sun from our ...
Mars Is About To Be at Its Brightest Since 2022—Here’s How To Easily View the Red Planet
It’s a term used by astronomers to describe when Earth, Mars and the Sun align. When this happens, Earth sits directly ...
How did Pluto’s large moon Charon form? With a ‘kiss,’ scientists say
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...
You Can See Mars at Its Brightest This Week. Here’s How.
We haven’t seen the Red Planet this luminous in the night sky since 2022. Our astrotourism expert shares how and when to enjoy the show.
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Quad-Cities Popular Astronomy Club: Coming this week: An occultation of Mars
An occultation of Mars by the Moon last occurred on Dec. 7, 2022. This photo, showing Mars just before it went behind the Moon, was taken during that occultation at PAC’s Paul Castle Observatory in ...