Mars will make its closest approach to Earth on the last day of July. When will Mars approach Earth? The movement of the planets of the solar system Will it be possible to see Mars on August 27

For a long time, the entire Internet was filled with articles aboutclose approach of Mars to Earth. Even the exact time is indicated when the planet Mars will approach the Earth and that, allegedly, in the night sky it will be the brightest star along with the Moon.

Here is what they write:

"August 27 at 00:30 in the night sky, everyone can see an unusual sight. The planet Mars will pass only 34.65 thousand / 34.65 million miles (55 thousand km. /55 million km.) from the earth. To the naked eye, the planet will be visible as a full moon. It will look like two moons above the earth! The next time Mars will be this close to Earth will be in 2287."

From year to year, closer to August 27, more and more hysteria on this topic is growing on the Internet. Maybe all the same this year Mars will approach the Earth at the smallest distance?
This message is called the Martian hoax.

WHAT IS A MARS HOOK:

martian hoax is a hoax that happened in 2003. In an email that users sent to each other, it was claimed that on August 27, 2003, Mars will look larger than the full moon, subject to 75x magnification. It is not clear why, but Internet users happily ignored the clarification regarding the increase in the red planet by 75 times and quoted the message without this important clarification.

In 2003, Mars really had the smallest distance from the Earth in the last 59,000 years. After all, before that, Mars approached the Earth at a minimum distance on September 24, 57617 BC, more than 59 thousand years ago! Then the distance between the planets was 55.718 million kilometers, and in 2003 a little more - 55.758 million kilometers.

At the same time, in martian hoax the distance was indicated by about a thousand times less than the real one. After all, a distance of 34,000 miles is less than from the Earth to the Moon.

In reality, on August 27, 2003, people could see the full moon in the sky and a bright point nearby, because Mars was the brightest "star" in the sky that night.

Since then this martian hoax pops up almost every year, and August 27, 2015 is no exception.

However, astronomers say that on August 27, 2015, the moon-sized Mars will not be visible in the sky, because this is impossible under the circumstances that exist in the solar system. If Mars were at a distance sufficient for such an event, then its gravity would have a devastating effect on our planet.

Mars is about twice the diameter of our moon. This means that in order to have approximately the same apparent size in the sky, the red planet must be at a distance of twice more distance from the earth to the moon.
Keep in mind that Mars has nine times the mass of the Moon. It would act on the blue planet with its gravity twice as much as the Moon. This would have caused unprecedented cataclysms on our planet.

P.S. I would like to note that many people are looking forward to a similar event that happens almost every year - the Supermoon. This is the full moon when the moon is closest to the earth. At the same time, the lunar ball visually seems much larger than usual. In 2015, this event will occur a little more than a month after the Martian hoax, so we are waiting Supermoon 2015.

"Supermoon(in English SuperMoon ) - this is the phase of the full moon (full moon), during which the lunar ball in the visual sky looks much larger than during ordinary full moons. According to NASA measurements, the lunar disk is expanding by about 15% and getting brighter by about 30%."

The astronomical phenomenon, which is a new moon or full moon, coinciding with the presence of the Moon at perigee - the point of the orbit closest to the Earth - could be observed in January, February, March, and will also be observed in August, September and October of the coming year.

Scientists calculate dates for 2015 supermoons

The first supermoon could be seen on January 20, 2015 - then appeared in the sky new Moon. New moons on February 18 and March 20 also became super moons. full moons also coincide with the lunar perigee on August 29, September 28 and October 27.

The closest supermoon of 2015 will be the moon on September 28, which will approach the Earth at a distance of 356,896 kilometers. Moreover, the September full moon will give earthlings a total lunar eclipse, ending the series of "blood moons" that began on April 15th.

The Earth's atmosphere is divided into layers that differ in temperature, density and chemical composition. At sea level, the atmosphere exerts a pressure of 1 atm. The average density decreases with height.

The atmosphere is divided into Troposphere, tropopause, Stratosphere, stratopause, Ozone layer, and so on. up to 1,000 km and beyond.

The atmosphere of the Sun is no different from the atmosphere of the Earth, except for one thing, just as the size of the planet Earth differs from the Sun, so the size of the rest of the data increases many times over. So the pressure on Earth is 1 atm. equal to several billion atm. on the surface of the sun. The height of the Earth's atmosphere of thousands of kilometers turns for the atmosphere of the Sun into billions of kilometers, far beyond the orbit of the last planet SS.

Pictured is the planet Mercury. Movement speed...

On the night of July 27-28 (from 21:25 to 01:15), residents of Russia, including St. Petersburg and Leningrad region will be able to observe the longest lunar eclipse in the last hundred years, it will last 3 hours 51 minutes. The total phase of the eclipse will last from 22:30 to 00:13 (1 hour 43 minutes). At this time, the moon will have a red color.

In addition, on this day, July 27, 2018, the observer will be able to see the great opposition of Mars with the Sun. The red planet of the solar system will be at the minimum distance from Earth over the past 15 years, or rather, the distance will be only 55.76 million kilometers. The brightness of Mars will reach 2.8 magnitudes and this is with an apparent diameter of 24.2.

Solar system! Is it possible to bring her to common denominator?

. Year speed of movement distance from the Sun
1. Mercury 87 days 47.1 km / s 0.357 AU

2. Venus 224 days 35 km/sec 0.723 AU

3. Earth 365 days 32 km / s ...

The mission will look for evidence of methane in the Martian atmosphere, which could confirm the presence of life or activity in the present or past of the planet. RKN Proton s spacecraft The ExoMars - 2016 mission at the Baikonur Cosmodrome started successfully.

The main objective of the 2016 mission is to search for evidence of methane in the planet's atmosphere, which could confirm the presence of life or activity in the present or past of Mars, as well as to test key technologies for the second ExoMars expedition, scheduled for 2018.

For a long time, the entire Internet was filled with articles about close approach of Mars to Earth. Even the exact time is indicated when the planet Mars will approach the Earth and that, allegedly, in the night sky it will be the brightest star along with the Moon.

Let's see if on August 27, 2015 (2016, 2017) the maximum approach of Mars to the Earth will occur and will it be as bright as the Moon in the night sky?!

Here is what they write:

On August 27 at 00:30, everyone will be able to see an unusual sight in the night sky. The planet Mars, will pass only 34.65 thousand / 34.65 million miles (55 thousand km. / 55 million km.) from the earth. To the naked eye, the planet will be visible as a full moon. It will look like two moons above the earth! Next…

So Sunday October 19 has come and all the astronomers of the world are preparing to observe an event that occurs once in a million years! On this day, comet C/2013 A1, discovered by Siding Spring observatory specialist Robert McNaught, will approach Mars at a minimum distance of 138,000 kilometers, which is 3 times less than the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and its tail will stretch for several hundred thousand kilometers and an icy the dust of the comet will envelop Mars for a while.

NASA ( National Administration Aeronautics and Research outer space) has released new details about its proposed mission, which is designed to move nearby asteroids away from Earth, into other orbits. The plan is based on a combination of already launched proven hardware solutions and advanced technologies under development. The first step, the selection of potential targets, will be handled by the wide-field infrared survey explorer, the WISE telescope. WISE was launched in 2009 with a two-year mission to image 99% of the visible sky in infrared. Once this mission was successfully completed, NASA gave the spacecraft a second four-month mission to detect and track objects close to Earth. Although many of them, such as small asteroids, do not reflect visible light, they can be detected by thermal emission.

On the night of August 6, 2012, there was 7 minutes of silence at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California. “Seven minutes of horror turned into seven minutes of triumph” - John Grunsfeld, former astronaut, now Administrator scientific programs NASA. This is the time it takes for a radio signal to cover the distance between Mars and Earth. The space rover Curiosity ("Curiosity") took more than 8 months to do this, and scientists - years of painstaking efforts, preparation and attempts, sometimes ending in failure. At 1:39 UT, the long-awaited news came - the rover is on the surface, and begins its mission, previously planned for two years. A few more minutes - and the first picture comes ...

the ending

Yana wrote the events on her blog - the ship's transmitter was quite powerful, as was the receiver, and if desired, we could drown out any station with our broadcasts, being close to the Earth.

"We're flying over the moon. In one spectrum it can be seen through, as in an x-ray. And what do you think inside? It reminded me of a clock. Mechanical. There great amount gears.

Everything moves and ticks. Earth clock? In the space between the parts, something is constantly moving and moving. We decided not to stay there because of the uncomfortable questions that we will be asked like - What are you doing here .. Your place is there and there.

In general, being alone in space is an indescribable feeling.

No fear. The feeling is that music is playing somewhere, classical, not only for me, but for everyone ...

continuation

The balding Editor-in-Chief sat at the table and did not notice anyone.

I myself will know everything, sit here .. - Rina said.

Oddly enough, I agreed.

Here it is Chief Editor newspaper "Selsky Udel"

“Rural allotment,” the editor corrected, without taking his head off the table.

How can I..?

There was recently a note about training for a flight to Mars ... .. I wanted to “thank” this journalist personally .. - Rina said.

Ah, Yanka, oh, and a smart girl, but lucky ..

Why lucky?

Tried to commit suicide three times...

Could it be more...

Mmm……..

You can't imagine how happy I was when they were crying .. That they are here, together.

They, and the stars.. How romantic. No, it's better that way - THEY ARE STARS!

Who do you choose? - the tearful girls asked ..

Bench - without blinking, but apparently thinking, I answered.

You have to choose one of us... One.

Well, if I don’t want to choose, but I want to be with you and that’s it. Who will forbid me?

Your words mean to me - choose one leg, one arm .. And I don’t see myself without you ..

I'm gone.

The girls looked at each other smiling.

Guys, I'm sinful, said Rina, I recently met a guy, well, because of curiosity.

I ask him...

The wonderful date of August 27 should have been made a red day of the calendar and celebrated annually. I even propose to introduce the so-called "Mars Day" - "Mars Day", because everyone has his own day, even the Elephant has an "Elephant Day". The red planet must also have its day.

On the night of August 27-28, 2003, the previous Great Opposition of Mars took place. Mars was then perfectly visible in the constellation of Aquarius and in general - a significant amount of attention was riveted to it, as involved in scientific world public, and all other people thanks to the abundance of publications in the media. And probably, by attracting people to this topic, it was possible to earn something on the Internet at banner displays or in some other way. It is possible that for these reasons, enterprising people unknown to the world posted on the Internet a kind of "letter of happiness" that on August 27 Mars is expected in the sky the size of a full moon. Only, here, the year is not indicated. But you can’t just take and publish stupidity on the Internet, and then completely remove it from the Internet. The Internet remembers everything. And every year in the month of August this rubbish pops up, Together with it, a memory awakens in the human memory that on August 27 something rare in the sky should happen, something that happens once in 5000 years, but - every year .. .

Let's find out how red Mars will be seen and what it will look like on August 27, 2016.

In 2016, the planet Mars passed its next opposition - not the Great one this time, but quite close to the Earth. The visibility of the red planet was excellent for most of the year. But in the last summer month, the conditions of this visibility began to deteriorate sharply. This is due to the fact that Mars is getting closer to the Sun, and the fact that the height of Mars above the horizon continues to be very small - Mars in August 2016 is located almost in the southernmost part of the ecliptic and very quickly goes beyond the horizon. And the maximum that a resident of the middle latitudes of Russia can count on is from 30 minutes to an hour - this is the time during which you can try to make out a reddish star-like star in the twilight glow low over the southwestern horizon.

Yes, Mars in the second half of August is visible only at dusk and for a very short time.

At the same time, it is quite bright - it has a "zero" stellar magnitude and is located in the most stellar thicket of the constellation Scorpio - in its "Claws". It is adjacent to the similarly colored Antares, the main star of Scorpio, and to the yellowish Saturn. This is mutual arrangement three luminaries - Mars, Saturn and Antares - quite interesting, beautiful and really rare. The next time the three of them will meet in the sky not soon - in 2044 and 2046 - under less favorable conditions - not as beautiful as this time.

And a separate article is devoted to how the conditions for the joint visibility of Mars, Saturn, Antares and the Moon developed this year:

By the way, it is still relevant. Read its ending - there is just about August and September left.

Despite unsatisfactory visibility conditions in central Russia, Mars is still fairly close to Earth. We are separated by only 120 million kilometers - for interplanetary scales, this is not very much. Copper most often Mars is located much longer from the Earth. And all the other planets of the Solar System (except Venus and Mercury) are always farther from us than these 120 million kilometers.

The apparent size of the planet Mars does not allow it to be different from other stars in the sky. And even through a telescope, Mars will be visible at best as a small red-orange disk with subtle lighter and darker spots. You will not be able to see any channels or Martians on August 27 even when observing Mars in the Edwin Hubble telescope.

But you can enjoy the movement of Mars among the stars of the constellation Scorpio even with binoculars or a telescope. True, one evening on August 27, 2016 will not be enough for this. And Mars will have to be observed from evening to evening - only then it will clearly become noticeable that it "floats" among the stars.

That is why I decided to take a look at his movement through the constellations of Scorpio and Ophiuchus for a month, starting right from tonight - from August 12, 2016.

On August 12, next to Mars, Saturn and Antares, the young Moon shone in a phase slightly more than the first quarter (half).

Further, on the evening of August 19, Mars will pass very close to the 4.5 magnitude Scorpio omicron star, which is no doubt worth looking through binoculars or a telescope at low magnification. The distance between Mars and the star will be half the lunar disk.

On August 23 and 24, Mars will be between Antares and Saturn - on the shortest distance from both luminaries and - almost on the same straight line. This is also worth a look.

The position of Mars among the stars of the constellations of Scorpio and Ophiuchus on August 27, 2016 is generally unremarkable.

On September 8 and 9, the Moon will pass next to Saturn and Mars again. But it will not be located very close in relation to both planets in the sky.

That's all the key points about the visibility of Mars in the coming month from mid-August to mid-September.

But for real astronomers and real astronomy lovers, there are no nights or evenings that are unsuitable for observations. The main thing is that the weather would be suitable for observations, and even - what to see - it will always be found in the sky. Therefore, at the end of this review, I leave pictures from the Stellarium program, which indicate the position of Mars among the star placers of Scorpio and Ophiuchus a month ahead - the date of August 27 is also among these pictures. But you can find Mars with their help on any fine evening.

The date is indicated at the bottom of each picture in small numbers.

Here is what they write:

WHAT IS A MARS HOOK:

At the same time, in martian hoax the distance was indicated by about a thousand times less than the real one. After all, a distance of 34,000 miles is less than from the Earth to the Moon.

In reality, on August 27, 2003, people could see the full moon in the sky and a bright point nearby, because Mars was the brightest "star" in the sky that night.

Since then this martian hoax pops up almost every year, and August 27, 2015 is no exception.

Mars is about twice the diameter of our moon. This means that in order to have approximately the same apparent size in the sky, the red planet must be at a distance twice the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
Keep in mind that Mars has nine times the mass of the Moon. It would act on the blue planet with its gravity twice as much as the Moon. This would have caused unprecedented cataclysms on our planet.

Scientists calculate dates for 2015 supermoons

The first supermoon could be seen on January 20, 2015 - then a new moon appeared in the sky. New moons on February 18 and March 20 also became super moons. Full moons will also coincide with lunar perigee on August 29, September 28 and October 27.

Mars is one of the closest planets to us. In this indicator, it is surpassed only by Venus. The red planet in the summer of 2018 can be easily found in the night sky.

Experts of the nplus1.ru portal report that closer to the beginning of August 2018, a special phenomenon will be observed - the closest approach of Mars to the Earth. In astronomy, this is called opposition. This is a rare event because it happens about once every 15 years.

Why Mars will become visible

In its normal state, Mars is very poorly visible, because it reflects very little of the sun's rays. In late July and early August, it will be visible even to the naked eye, simply because it will be very close to us. This will be a great opportunity to look at the red planet, and without resorting to special equipment.

Finding a planet in the night sky is not difficult if you follow the rules. According to the calculations of astronomers, there will be a convergence on July 27. The best visibility will continue until the 31st of the same month. In early August, it will still be possible to observe a large Mars, but it will gradually “fade out”.

July 27 - day lunar eclipse, so we can see two interesting events at once in one day. As for the astrological meaning of the opposition of Mars, then not everything is as rosy as we would like. In its energy, Mars is the lord of aggression, strength, cruelty, dynamics. Even his permanent companions are called "Fear" and "Horror". July 27 and the week or one and a half following this day will be extremely dangerous for those who do not know how to restrain emotions. Impulsive people are better off staying close to calm people. These days are best devoted to physical activity and solitude.

How to find Mars in the night sky

Usually Mars is very dim, but already in June it will be almost as bright as Jupiter, which is visible to the naked eye. By July 27, Mars will become almost twice as bright and will overtake Jupiter. It will be difficult to confuse Mars with another object in the sky because it will have a noticeable reddish tint.

The further north you live, the closer Mars will be to the horizon for you and, accordingly, it will be more difficult to see it. Alas, you will not see the red planet at all near the Arctic Circle. In mid-latitudes, Mars will be quite low to the horizon, but quite visible and distinguishable. The further south, the better the visibility of the planet. The best time to watch is after midnight.

The easiest way to find Mars is to use a compass. You need to accurately determine which direction is east and which is south. Between these directions will be the brightest point in the sky. She is Mars. The planet will be located closer to the south, especially during the opposition. We remind you once again that in the middle latitudes, Mars is very low to the horizon, so do not look for it high above your head.

Until the end of summer, Mars will be retrograde. This period is very important in terms of astrology and astronomy. The planet will move in the opposite direction just from the day of the great opposition - July 27th. This movement will be relevant until August 27. You can find out from our other article. Good luck and don't forget to press the buttons and

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