What's all this Mars malarky about ? Apparently in the month of August you are supposed to be able to see it. I looked last night and the night before and saw a rather large star at the side of the moon - was that it ? Anyone know anything about it ?

That was it. There's a response from someone on this forum explaining exactly where to look. As I understand it, Mars is at its closest now for the last 60,000 years. Just watch out for those threads.

Mars, is a red planet easily visible in the night sky, it takes an eliptical orbit and is now the nearest it will ever get to earth at aproximately 133 million miles.

100 million miles to much,Earth to Mars 34,646,418

And hopefully Beagle II, Britains first ever interplanetary craft, will land on Mars on Christmas Day.

Mars is also visible during the day in the chubby hands of people who walk around with their shirts out, wearing sunglasses on the top of the head and are constantly hugging people while muttering "Top man..my princess..posh'n'bex..we're an item..
definitely..wicked.....