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Mars: Opposition

Fri, Jan 29, 2010

Mars opposition on Earth, Earth in inferior conjunction on Mars. Opposition is where the Earth is directly between Mars and the Sun.

Apparent brightness of Mars reaches -1.27 mag in constellation Cancer.

Distance from Earth:  0.6640 AU / 99,423,000 kilometers / 61,778,000 miles

Mars rises at 5:02pm PST

Unfortunately for viewing, Mars will be very close to the full moon this evening.

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