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 ...

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.

It’s not every day the moon moves in front of a bright planet, but the likely once-in-a-lifetime event for some parts of the U.S. will unveil next week. The rare second occultation of Mars will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...