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    Red Moon - take the kids outside next week

    The redness is due largely to refraction of light through the atmosphere, splits the spectrum up like with a rainbow, also why we can get glorious coloured skies with sunsets/sunrises. Red moons have been around for a lot longer in history than we have had serious pollution.
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    Red Moon - take the kids outside next week

    BS Earth orbits about 150 million km from sun, Mars is about 230 million...so even if there was a conjunction, we'd still be 80 million km away. The moon is is about 380 thousand km away. So Mars is at least 200x further away than the moon, plus Mars' diameter is only about 2x that of the...
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