This hoax circulates every August. It's in the top 10 most-searched-for subjects at EarthSky this week. Is it true? No. Mars won't be as big as the moon on August 27, or ever.
Updates on 2 Mars missions, 1 old and 1 new. Insight is on course for a November touchdown. The 15-year-old Opportunity rover lost contact with Earth months ago, due to a global dust storm, but the engineering team is hopeful.
It's been a gala summer for Mars! Glenn Hughson in Michigan caught the red planet - still at its brightest in Earth's sky since 2003 - near the moon on July 28. He wrote, "We were launching bottle rockets on the shore of Lake Michigan as the moon and Mars both rose over the horizon."
