Close Encounter with Mars Wall Art Size:40 x 40 This outflow sweeps up the

This outflow sweeps up the cold

flattened disk encircling the newborn star

The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 18 million km/h

astronomers continue tracking shifting weather patterns and storms

Close Encounter with Mars Wall Art Size:40 x 40 This outflow sweeps up theNASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this close up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55, 760, 220 km away. This colour image was assembled from a series of exposures taken between 6: 20 p. m. and 7: 12 p. m. EDT Aug. 26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The picture was taken just 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth in 60, 000 years. Many small, dark, circular impact craters can be seen, attesting to the