The Martians are Coming!
August 11th, 2003 | College of Staten Island
On August 27, 2003, the planet Mars will be 34,646,418 miles from Earth – the closest it has been in more than 73,000 years. Mars will be brighter than Jupiter and all the stars in the sky – a red planet 8 times brighter than normal.
Celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime planetary opposition with Mars: A Close Encounter, [...]