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Mars Closest to Earth This Week; Best View Until 2016

National Geographic: The bright yellowish-orange "star" poised above the constellation Gemini is actually the planet Mars, and this week the icy world is making its closest approach to Earth until 2016.

Posted by Physics Today on December 19, 2007 11:40 AM |

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