its the biggest load of horseshit ever.
The moon is about 380,000km? away from the Earth. Mars is about 60 million km away, on its closest run past Earth !! It would have to swing a farken long way out of its orbit to appear 'as big as the moon' !!
This all kicked off back in about 2002 or 2003, when Mars did in fact make its closest approach to Earth in quite some millenia. At no point was it ever going to be 'as big as the moon' - but it was quite bright and very red in the sky, and clearly visible at night as the Red planet.
Every year since, around August without fail - the same bullshit about Mars appearing 'as big as the moon' gets regurgitated on the Net. Its a load of crap.
Having said all that - there was a fantastic once-in-a-lifetime Grand Cross in the night sky the week before last. The crescent moon appeared at the foot of the T, and Mars, Venus, Saturn and Mercury formed the cross-bar of the T. The 4 planets were directly aligned in a vertical line, this Grand T only appeared just after sunset. Really amazing formation, and not something you see every day or indeed every lifetime.
