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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope's
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How To See Mars, Jupiter And Saturn Up Close In A Virtual Telescope During 'National Astronomy Week'
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