I am getting approximately one gazillion emails a day now about this "Mars as big as the Moon" meme going around the web. I've been meaning to write a page about it, but have always found some excuse to blow it off. Anyway, I finally put it up. Here it is. Bottom line: tell your friends it's ain't true. Mars will be it's normal self all year, with no gigantic apparitions of it looming over your head.
Mars attacks, again
Discover the truth behind the 'Mars as big as the Moon' meme—it's more myth than reality. Tell your friends it's not true!
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