Mars Spotting

Last fall I tried to locate Mars on a couple of nights, but without success. I may have seen it, but wasn't confident.

This week Mars is visible in the Southeast, and for the past couple of days, not far from the moon in the early morning.  Yesterday I was up early to walk to yoga, but there was quite a bit of cloud cover.  The moon peeked through gaps in the shifting clouds, quite dramatically at times, but nothing around it was visible, though closer to the horizon in the East, Venus was visible, if a bit hazy.

This morning I was awake early again - not because I really needed to be - but probably because it is the schedule I have been on for the past couple of days.  That gave me the opportunity to go out for another try at Mars spotting.

There's a lot of moisture in the air, so the sky was filled with a thin fog, but I was able to see Mars well enough - a little ways to the moon's upper right side.

Meanwhile on Mars, the rover named Curiosity has photographed Earth.