No, Mars Won't Be As Big as the Moon in the Sky Tonight
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 06:50
in Astronomy & Space
The "Mars Hoax" has been popping up every Aug. 27 since 2003, when it was born in a widely misinterpreted email. The sender of that message was trying to get people excited about an unusually close approach of Mars to Earth in late August 2003.