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A close-up of Mars

This rotation image of Mars was created from four separate images of the planet taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The images were taken in early December 2007, just weeks before its 18 December closest approach (c) NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

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A close-up of Mars
— 18 December 2007 20:52 GMT | Astronomy

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles - 88 million kilometres - away. This colour image was assembled from a series of exposures taken within 36 hours of the Mars closest approach with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Mars will be closest to Earth on 18 December, at 11:45 PM Universal Time (6:45 PM EST)…