A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Why it's so special: Something strange happened late at night on January 13, 2025. Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf ...

It's a special image because, as well as the rare celestial alignment necessary for it to occur, it happened just a few days before Mars reached opposition. Opposition is when Earth is positioned ...