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what's up for July how about some moons

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with those giant planets Mars after

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midnight and are the stars of Mars the

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same as ours in the first week of July

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enjoy Jupiter Saturn and the moon late

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into the night

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the trio rises in the couple of hours

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after sunset and is well placed for

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viewing between about 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.

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they form their closest grouping over

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the July 4th weekend and as you're

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marveling at this celestial celebration

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remember you're not just looking at one

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moon but well over a hundred at present

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count Jupiter and Saturn have a hundred

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sixty-one moons between them you can see

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Jupiter's four largest moons with a

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basic pair of binoculars and at least

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one of Saturn's moons with a basic

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telescope up close these moons are

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richly varied worlds in their own right

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with ice-covered oceans volcanoes chasms

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and one with an atmosphere and seas of

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liquid hydrocarbons NASA's Mars 2020

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mission is planned to launch this summer

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sending the perseverance Rover and the

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first ever Mars helicopter to the Red

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Planet so if you're a Mars exploration

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fan this month is a great time to spot

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Mars yourself in July Mars rises just

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before midnight and is visible until

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dawn its rising earlier now than it was

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a few months ago making it easier for

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those who were more night-owls than

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early birds just look low in the east

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after midnight for a relatively bright

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object with a distinct reddish hue and

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for an extra treat take a look on July

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11th to find the moon very close by you

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might not have considered it before but

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would it surprise you that the night sky

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on Mars is quite similar to Earth's in

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many ways sure there's sometimes a lot

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of dust in the thin air and there are

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too little moons rather than one big one

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but the stars we see from Earth are so

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very distant that they appear the same

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as seen from Mars and you'd have no

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trouble finding your favorite

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constellations and asterisms like the

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Big Dipper plus with no humans there yet

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there's absolutely zero light pollution

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to interfere with your view of the Milky

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Way

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one big difference would be the

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positions of the planets in the sky and

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instead of a ruddy red planet there

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would be a dazzling bluish white one to

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try and spot while stargazing to see

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noticeable changes in the positions of

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the stars you'd have to travel much

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farther than Mars Jupiter or even Pluto

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in fact NASA's new Horizons spacecraft

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speeding through the outskirts of the

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solar system has only seen the slightest

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shift in the positions of a couple of

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nearby stars

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despite being more than four billion

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miles away from Earth

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you can catch up on all of NASA's

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missions to explore the solar system and

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beyond at nasa.gov I'm Preston dykes