{"id":855,"date":"2025-01-14T16:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:34:25","slug":"martian-eclipse-lunar-occultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Martian Eclipse (Lunar Occultation)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night (13 January 2025), North American observers could see the nearly full Moon pass in front of Mars, hiding it for as long as an hour. I got some photos of Mars emerging on the other side:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mars (the small reddish dot above) emerges from lunar occultation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As noted last week<\/a>, right now Mars is relatively close to Earth and in nearly full phase, just like the Moon in these pictures, so we are seeing the entire “day” side of Mars. Mars is twice the diameter of the Moon, but presently it is more than 200 times as far from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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