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Credit & Copyright: Carlos Kiko Fairbairn
Explanation:
When two planets pass on the night sky, they can usually be seen near each other
for a week or more.
In the case of this planetary
conjunction, Venus and Mars passed within 4 degrees of each other earlier
this month.
The featured image was taken a few days prior, when
Venus was slowing rising in the pre-dawn sky, night by night, while
Mars was slowly setting.
The image, a four-part mosaic, was captured in
Brazil from the small town
Teresö¨polis.
Besides Venus and Mars,
the morning sky now also
includes the more distant planet
Saturn.
Of course, these
conjunctions are only angular --
Venus, Mars, and Saturn continue to
orbit the Sun in very different parts of
our Solar System.
Next week, the angle between
Saturn and Mars will drop to below a quarter of a degree.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Venus - Mars
Publications with words: Venus - Mars
See also:
- A Conjunction of Crescents
- Full Moon, Full Mars
- APOD: 2025 January 15 Á Wolf Moon Engulfs Mars
- APOD: 2024 December 3 Á Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
- APOD: 2024 November 10 Á Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
- APOD: 2024 September 9 Á Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos
- APOD: 2024 June 5 Á Shadow of a Martian Robot