Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Mon Jul 09 2018 10:18:10 APOD: 2018 July 9 - Road to Mars Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 July 9 [2] Road to Mars Image Credit & Copyright: John Chumack [3] Explanation: What's that light at the end of the road? Mars [4] . This is a good month to point out Mars [5] to your friends [6] and family because our neighboring planet will not only be its brightest in 15 years [7] , it will be visible for much of night. During this month [8] , Mars will be about 180 degrees around from the Sun, and near the closest it ever gets to planet Earth [9] . In terms of orbits, Mars is also nearing the closest point [10] to the Sun in its elliptical orbit [11] , just as Earth moves nearly between it and the Sun -- an alignment known as perihelic opposition [12] . In terms of viewing [13] , orange Mars will rise in the east just as the Sun sets in the west, on the opposite side of the sky. Mars [14] will climb in the sky during the night, reach its highest near midnight, and then set in the west just as the Sun begins to rise in the east. The red planet [15] was captured setting beyond a stretch of road in Arches National Park [16] in mid-May near Moab, Utah [17] , USA [18] . Tomorrow's picture: noctilucent flashes [19] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [20] | Archive [21] | Submissions [22] | Index [23] | Search [24] | Calendar [25] | RSS [26] | Education [27] | About APOD [28] | Discuss [29] | > [30] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [31] (MTU [32] ) & Jerry Bonnell [33] (UMCP [34] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [35] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [36] A service of: ASD [37] at NASA [38] / GSFC [39] & Michigan Tech. U. [40] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1807/Road2Mars_Chumack_1800.jpg [3] http://www.galacticimages.com/catalog/about_us.php [4] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mars/overview/ [5] https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/jpl/whats-up-july-2018 [6] http://www.poetryclub.com.ua/upload/poem_all/00643799.jpeg [7] ap030813.html [8] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/video/ jpl-20180701-whatsuf-0001-180cc.mp4 [9] ap100713.html [10] ap180601.html [11] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Ellipse.html [12] http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/ why-is-mars-sometimes-bright-and-sometimes-faint [13] ap180627.html [14] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ skywatch-july-is-the-month-of-mars/2018/06/30/ aa0d2666-7bab-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?utm_term=.3712781773a9 [15] ap970627.html [16] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4UKkCwbAmw [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab,_Utah [18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States [19] ap180710.html [20] ap180708.html [21] archivepix.html [22] lib/apsubmit2015.html [23] lib/aptree.html [24] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [25] calendar/allyears.html [26] /apod.rss [27] lib/edlinks.html [28] lib/about_apod.html [29] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=180709 [30] ap180710.html [31] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [32] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [33] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [34] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [35] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [36] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [37] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [38] https://www.nasa.gov/ [39] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [40] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .