{"id":118332,"date":"2021-07-13T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=118332"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:38:20","slug":"planetary-conjunction-of-mars-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/planetary-conjunction-of-mars-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary conjunction of Mars, Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Tiruchirapalli\/planetary-conjunction-of-mars-venus-today\/article35289276.ece\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Hindu<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is the News?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Earth\u2019s two immediate neighbors Mars and Venus will come closest to each other. This event is called planetary conjunction.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is Conjunction?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The conjunction <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is the name given to any event where planets or asteroids appear to be very close together in the sky when viewed from the Earth.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is Planetary Conjunction?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"\" data-listid=\"6\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Planetary conjunction\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">takes place when two planets appear to have come closer, while in reality, they remain far away.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is Great Conjunction?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Astronomers use the term great conjunction<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to describe meetings of the two biggest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Great Conjunction happens<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> once in about 20 years, because of the time each of the planets takes to orbit around the Sun.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">About Mars:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mars\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System. It is larger than only Mercury. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In English,\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mars carries the name of the Roman god of war and is often referred to as the &#8220;Red Planet&#8221;.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is also called the\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Red Planet because of the effect of\u00a0the iron oxide prevalent on Mars&#8217;s surface which gives it a reddish appearance distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">About Venus:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"\" data-listid=\"5\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-findings-related-to-venus\/\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Venus<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is the second planet from the sun. It is similar in structure but slightly smaller than Earth (Earth\u2019s Twin).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"\" data-listid=\"5\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Venus\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">has a thick and toxic atmosphere that consists primarily of carbon dioxide with clouds of sulfuric acid droplets.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0 What is the News?\u00a0 Earth\u2019s two immediate neighbors Mars and Venus will come closest to each other. This event is called planetary conjunction.\u00a0\u00a0 What is Conjunction?\u00a0 The conjunction is the name given to any event where planets or asteroids appear to be very close together in the sky when viewed from the Earth.\u00a0\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/planetary-conjunction-of-mars-venus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planetary conjunction of Mars, Venus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702923477},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}