Hello, and thank you for listening to this episode of the night sky podcast. My name is Billy Newman. And I'm Marina Hansen. And this week, we're going to be talking really just about Mars right now. It's, it's at its brightest, I think it's for the next four days or so it's going to be at its very brightest that that we'll be able to see it. And that's because we're passing a point where Mars has been in opposition. And now it's at its closest point, or I think it's brightest pointer at its highest magnitude in the series. And so we thought that was a good point, to, to bring up and to talk about and to do kind of an episode that's all about the motion of Mars that people have been seeing and that we've been observing through the night sky over the past month, and then what motion is going to continue for the next month school, how we can kind of forecast it, and how it's so you know, lockstep and the amount of time that it takes to do these certain types of motions and patterns that have been observed for hundreds of years. 1000s of years now?

Yeah, it's really interesting how we're able to predict it really to the day. Yeah.

Yeah, it's, it's really, it's really specific, the timing of these progressions, and they don't seem to be that random. What I understand is, is Yeah, if you've been looking up in the night sky, and if you've been

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