“Mars takes about two years to go around the sun and as a result Earth is faster and we catch up to it every couple of years.”
He said Mars is now slowly beginning to fade back, but said the planet will still provide prime viewing opportunities for the next several weeks.
Arkos said three international space missions in the coming months are taking advantage of Mars’ close proximately to Earth, which he said should produce valuable new images of the planet.
Nanaimo Astronomy Society president Chris Boar has taken a video time lapse of Mars available on the group’s Facebook page.
He said now is a unique opportunity to capture surface details of Mars which you can enjoy with quality telescope in the $400 to $500 range.
“Such as the south pole, which is frozen carbon dioxide. In some of the video you can see actual clouds moving across the surface. It’s quite amazing you can see clouds on another planet,” Boar said.
He said Jupiter and Saturn are also visible in the southern portion of the sky.
It has been an active year in the overnight sky with the Neowise comet phenomenon gaining the attention of space buffs in addition to the annual Perseids meteor shower.
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