A tennis ball at 528 meters. That's how small or, depending on your point of view, how big Mars is appearing in the night sky at the moment. Furthermore, it is as close as it has been in almost 60,000 years. We saw it bright in the sky last night when we came out of the cinema and it really isn't very difficult to spot. Just swivel southwards and look for the brightest dot in the sky. Mars has, of course, been in the news quite a bit recently and in answer to David Bowie's question, the collective wisdom seems to be there is no life on Mars.
Posted by Joe at August 25, 2003 01:11 PM