Mars comes close

- The planet Mars this week close to the earth. The distance is 30 May smallest: nearly 76 million kilometers. Mars is therefore good to see. At sunset it is in the Southeast as a bright yellow spot in the heavens. Until mid-June he stays so close.

The last time Mars came this close was in August 2003, when the distance was even smaller: less than 56 million kilometers, the shortest distance in thousands of years.