CNN.com - Skywatchers await Mars close-up - Oct 28, 2005

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Mars is ready for another close-up as the Red Planet will swing unusually close to Earth this weekend.

Mars' latest rendezvous will not match its record-breaking approach to Earth in 2003, when it hovered from 35 million miles away. But more skygazers this time around can glimpse the fourth rock from the sun because it will glow above the horizon.

'This is the best we're going to see Mars, so we should strike the iron while it is hot...