Ok, so I've mentioned Mars a few times, but it is one of the most incredible thngs I've ever seen, so I suppose I can be excused.

Yesterday, at at 9:51 GMT Mars and Earth were only 55,758,006 km (34,646,418 miles) apart from center to center. This is the nearest the two planets have been in almost 60,000 years.

I don't what it looks like in your part of the world, but here in Samoa, where there are so many visible stars and they seem so close that you can almost reach out and touch the Milky Way, Mars stands out like a brilliant, orange beacon in the night sky. It's incedibly beautiful.

The picture to the left comes courtesy of the incredible Hubble Telescope.

You can find out more about the Red Planet at the NASA website