Full Moon and Full Mars this Christmas
Sunday, December 23, 2007
This Christmas eve, Mars will be unusually bright and the moon will be shining 98 percent full. The moon will be this bright again after 16 years. Mar's exceptional brightness is due to it reaching an "opposition", which means it is exactly lined up with the Sun and Earth. "Opposition" also means Mars is fairly near, and its full face is lit up when viewed from Earth. "If you have a pair of binoculars around you might want to turn them towards the heavens," suggests astronomy educator Judy Stanley of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico.Link
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