Just tonight!The heavy stage is staged!

Poster production: Feng Juan

Astronomical popular science experts introduced that in the middle of the night from July 21st to the early morning of the 22nd, Tianyu will have a fun celestial image "Moon cover Mars". At that time, as long as the weather is fine, my country Heilongjiang, Jilin and other places will be lucky to observe that Mars will gradually come out from the edge of the moon. The moon can be seen in other parts of my country and Mars.

Mars is the first planet outside the earth's orbit. The color is red. Since ancient times, its unpredictable and fierce "face value" has attracted human attention. In 2020, my country successfully launched the Martian detector "Tianwen No. 1".

Xiu Lipeng, a member of the Tianjin Astronomical Society and an astronomical popular science expert, introduced that "Moon covering Mars" is actually the moon "blocking" Mars. It is a visual phenomenon that appears in a straight line.

Of course, not everyone can observe the grand occasion of "Monthly Hidden Mars", which is similar to that of solar eclipse. Only in the covering belt can you see "Monthly Mars", or the whole process of covering up In the process, other regions can only see the "Mars companion moon" with a very close distance.

This "Monthly Hidden Mars" occurred on the night of the night of the 21st to the early morning of the 22nd. Mars disappeared from the bright side of the moon and reproduced the dark side. At the beginning of the month, from 22:00 on the 21st Beijing time to 23:00, even in this period, even in the northeast region of my country, it was impossible to observe because the moon did not rise to the horizon. As the moon rises, Mars appears from the dark edge, and Heilongjiang, Jilin and other places can see them at low altitude in the northeast.

Xiu Lipeng said that for the observer in other parts of my country, the moon and Mars have only been promoted to the horizon after midnight. Although the process of covering the stars cannot be seen, the scene of the slightly reddish Mars and the bright moon are also very close to the competence. There are highlights.

Source: Xinhua View Point

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