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Credit & Copyright: Sergio Scauso
Explanation:
Does the Moon ever block out Mars?
Yes, the
Moon
occasionally moves in front of all of the
Solar System's planets.
Just this past Sunday, as visible from some locations in
South America, a
waning gibbous Moon eclipsed Mars.
The
featured image from
Cö¨rdoba,
Argentina
captured this occultation well, showing a
familiar cratered Moon in the foreground
with the bright planet
Mars unusually
adjacent.
Within a few seconds,
Mars then disappeared behind the Moon, only to
reappear a few minutes later
across the Moon.
Today the
Moon
moves close to, but not in front of,
Venus.
Because alignments will not have changed by much, the
next two times the Moon passes through this part of the sky Á
in early September and early October Á
it will also
occult Mars, as seen from parts of South America.
Pereid Meteor Shower:
Notable images
submitted to APOD
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