It's a warm night in mid-October, and I'm finding my way up to the University of Virginia's McCormick Observatory to unravel a mysterious mystery: Why are Earthlings so threatened with Mars?
The dome of the hill of the observatory is open, a shining amber crescent in the darkness of autumn. A telescope stands inside that will help me see Mars as it appeared to observers more than a century ago, when curious astronomers confirmed this discovery in 1877 of two small Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos. Was used.
Ed Murphy UVA astronomer observatory tonight has made a special trip, Due to the ongoing epidemic coronavirus which is closed to the public . The vortex dance of orbital dynamics has just placed Mars in the largest and brightest spot in the sky, and Murphy calculated that this would be the best time to see it from central Virginia, where turbulent winds sometimes caused the night sky-mist Can complicate
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