All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA.

By following the diagram backwards, it will be seen that on August 15th, Mars and Saturn were very close together. As a matter of fact on August 16th at 11 P. M., Mars and Saturn were separated by ...

No spacecraft has seen Saturn’s ring particles from this close ... or create a network to observe electrical storms on Mars or view regions on the sun not visible from Earth.