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Why do oppositions of Mars stir such interest among amateur astronomers?
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Mars is small, and most of the time so distant from Earth that amateur telescopes have a problem seeing anything but an orange disk.  But when the earth overtakes Mars every 2.2 years, Mars gets close enough to us to appear much larger and to show a good deal of surface features and atmospheric clouds, polar caps, and dust storms.
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