Revenge of the Mars Hoax

Mars is invading. Or so claims a resurrected hoax that claims that the Red Planet will soon appear as large as the Moon in the night sky. It’s a tweaked version of an earlier hoax from 2003, when Mars really was at its closest approach to Earth in thousands of years … but remained a fuzzy red dot in the night sky. Read Space.com’s new debunking or check out Nuketown’s original one.

 

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