This week offers multiple opportunities to get a great look at Mars thanks to several livestreams of Red Planet astronomical events.
Griffith Observatory livestream of the lunar occultation of Marsfree online livestream
of the lunar occultation of Mars. The broadcast will begin at 9:00 p.m. EST , weather permitting. Mars will disappear behind the moon at 9:31 p.m. EST and reappear one hour later. The observatory will also upload a time-lapse recording of the event on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. EST .The McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin, in conjunction with the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, will host a livestream of Mars at opposition. The broadcast begins on Thursday at 9:00 p.m.
will host a free livestream of the moon occulting Mars at opposition. The broadcast will begin at 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday and can be found on
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