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You've been around for a few years on earth. Have you ever seen any celestial body as large as the Moon or Sun (each of which appear to be about the same size) other than the Moon or Sun?

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The artical i read, whether bogus or not gave a few details that i left out of the post like the position of earth and mars not being this close for since the 1700's, and magnification effect caused by the Earth's atmosphere, I understand that the appearance of size and actual size are two very different things.

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unless you are 8 yrs old, you should be ashamed of yourself for asking that question

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Im not 8, nor am i ashamed of anything, but thanks for the fruitless reply, i vask in your fabricated wealth of knowledge.

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The artical i read, whether bogus or not gave a few details that i left out of the post like the position of earth and mars not being this close for since the 1700's...

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James,

The article was bogus in itself and the information in the article is based on an urban legend that is over 7 years old.

Mars made the close approach mentioned in the article in August of 2003 not August 2010.

But the legend lives on. What the legend leaves out, aside from being incorrect about the year, is that Mars in August of 2003 appeared to be about the same size as the Moon only if you were looking with a 75x telescope. The gist of it was that with a reasonably inexpensive telescope you would have been able to see a lot of details on the Martian surface that you cannot normally see (with the same telescope). However, Mars never appeared as large as the Moon to the naked eye.


Evil Debunker

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