The “Parade of the Planets” is tonight!
These will be their positions at 7:00 p.m. tonight (Friday, February 28)
With binoculars you should see that Venus actually forms a crescent like our moon because it orbits between the Sun and the Earth.
With binoculars, you’ll see Jupiter turn into a big “disk” with little star-like dots in a line beside it. Those are some of Jupiter’s many moons. If you look really carefully, you’ll see lines of clouds on Jupiter.
Mars, well, it’ll be a reddish orange disk. Think about it for a moment. This is our neighbour. The planet we’re always sending probes too, and our next target for human visitation. The first person to set foot on Mars is ALIVE on Earth, right now!
