2022, September 24: Mars Eastward March, Saturn Leads Evening Planet Parade
Microbial life may have resided within the very first four kilometers of Mars’s porous crust. To witness this astronomical anomaly, appear for Mars in the eastern sky immediately after 10 p.m., which is when the planet rises above the horizon, according to EarthSky.org. Beneath clear, dark skies, the planet is visible to the naked eye and can be differentiated from surrounding stars and planets by its distinctly reddish hue. Up till the evening of October 30, the planet will appear to move just a little farther eastward from night to night, but soon after October 30, you’ll notice it’s begun...