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Every 26 months or so, a reddish “star##x201D; appears in the night sky, moving fairly rapidly against the background constellations and increasing in brightness until it outshines everything apart from the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter.
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Bond, P. (2007). Mars: The red planet. In: Distant Worlds. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68367-6_5
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