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let's go to mars hey there stargazers 
I'm James Albury director of the key

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cassava plop planetarium in Gainesville 
Florida and I'm Dean Regas astronomer

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for the Cincinnati Observatory we're 
here to help you find your way around

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the sky the planet Mars is back in the 
nighttime sky and looking big bright and

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beautiful and read exactly currently we 
have several unmanned spacecraft

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circling Mars and to you rolling on mars 
so it got us thinking what would it be

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like to visit mars up close in person so 
this week will show you where to find

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mars in the earthly sky and then take 
you on a journey across millions of

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miles to the red planet so let's get ok 
we have asked I set up for Thursday June

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16th facing south where close the summer 
solstice so it doesn't get really dark

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until after 10 p.m. so our view here is 
at 11 p.m. I love any excuse to stay up

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late with the stars and planets and 
there's a lot to see in the southern sky

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this week on Thursday will be having the 
waxing gibbous moon above Harz yep that

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bright reddish star is actually the red 
planet cool and it's so easy to find

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right now over to the left you'll spot 
to fainter objects the dinner one is the

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star Antares the beating heart of the 
constellation Scorpius Scorpion and the

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broader one on the left is the ringed 
planet Saturn my favorite but I'll stay

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focused on mars since that's our 
destination today

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good idea but first let's see how things 
change over the week on Friday night the

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moon will shift to the left and on 
Saturday night it will cozy up next to

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saturn nice then on Sunday and Monday 
the moon will continue on its way but

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still leave our two planets and one 
bright shining star to the south now

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comes the fun part let's blast off from 
ours and take you in for a closer look

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this week marks is almost 50 million 
miles from Earth and Mars are properly

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position it takes a rock at about seven 
months to make the trip but will get you

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there in a few seconds as we approach 
the red planet will first notice that

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it's not super red it looks more orange 
brown pink and rusty and that's because

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there's a lot of honor in the ranks of 
mars that actually have rusted over time

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the bright white areas are the polar ice 
caps there's lots of dry ice around the

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martian polls but also a fair amount of 
water rights maybe we can ship off a few

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pieces and add them to our drinks before 
we land let's fly by Mars is to first up

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is da most the smaller on its left at 
eight miles across and circle the planet

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every 30 hours then we come to the 
larger moon Phobos it's still very small

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only about 14 miles why despite being 
covered in creators photos might make a

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great base of operations for future 
manned missions it could be a stopover

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for astronauts or an orbiting 
observatory to watch the planet more

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closely someday astronaut space shuttle 
down to Mars and back from this little

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moon alright we made it when the first 
humans to reach the surface of mars and

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what have you

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most of ours looks like a dry desolate 
orange desert with rocks strewn about

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and deep craters any water on Mars is 
hidden below the brown or is frozen in

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the ice caps but you can also find tall 
mountains like Olympus months which is

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three times taller than any Mountaineers 
and deep valleys like valise Mariners

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which is 2500 miles long and five times 
deeper than the Grand Canyon plus

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there's two Rover still rolling on mars 
hey look there's the Curiosity rover

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climbing Mount sharp a curiosity we may 
still be decades away from sending

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humans to Mars but one can always dream

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so this week look for Mars in the 
southern sky after dark and when you

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find a dream about taking a journey to 
the red planet you can visit it's two

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moons and kick up some red Martian dust 
it's all there when you keep looking up