On Jan. 27, Mars will be closer to Earth than any other time between 2008 and 2014.

They say the view will actually be best Jan. 29, 2010. They also have maps of the sky to guide you.

In other news, the Mars rover, Spirit, appears to be permanently stuck.

NASA Gives Up on Spirit Rescue, Preps Mars Rover to Hibernate

With winter approaching, Spirit’s handlers have decided to put the rover into a hibernation mode intended to protect its electronics from temperatures that could drop close to the design limit of negative 67 degrees Fahrenheit.

“The Rover will be like a polar bear hibernating and it could be for many months, on the order of 6 months that the Rover will be in this state,” said John Callas, the Rover project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, during a media teleconference. “This is not like the Phoenix mission. This rover is electrically active, but it has insufficient power to be awake each day.”

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