For this upcoming game of hide-and-seek, however, the moon will be not quite so bright (74% illuminated) and neither will Mars. Having retreated 29.63 million miles (47.68 million km) farther away ...

While we earthlings prepare for a rare total solar eclipse that will pass over North America, Mars had one of its own earlier this year.. A timelapse of photos taken by NASA's Perseverance rover ...

How to Prepare for the Event. While Mars will be visible to the naked eye as a bright, reddish-gold point of light, using a pair of binoculars or a telescope will significantly enhance the experience.

Jan. 13: Mars occultation The first full moon of 2025 is called the Wolf Moon. It's also a supermoon, set to appear in night skies Jan. 13, and will pass in front of Mars during a phenomenon known ...

Here's a timeline for the lunar occultation of Mars on Wednesday (Dec. 7). Update for Dec. 8: The rare Mars eclipse by the full moon thrilled skywatchers around the world. See photos and video of ...

From Mars' Jezero Crater, the Perseverance rover, which landed on the planet in 2021, captured a series of images on Feb. 8 of the odd-shaped tiny moon passing in front of the much-larger sun.

Skywatchers can catch a rare conjunction of the moon and Mars on June 29, appearing as a reddish "cherry" near a crescent ...

On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its Left Mastcam-Z camera toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing the planet's moon Phobos partially blocking the sun's disk.

Mars is about to pass behind a full cold moon in an occultation Wednesday night that can be seen across a large portion of North America and Europe.. Mars' occultation is essentially an eclipse of ...

Longest total Lunar eclipse and opposition of Mars, blood moon 2018. Image source: Peter Jurik / Adobe. During that previous Mars lunar occultation, the Moon was fully illuminated.

Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021; since then, the rover has kept busy imaging the planet’s geology and coring rock samples for their—cross your fingers—eventual return to Earth.