Mars at night: Stunning pictures of Red Planet shining brightly in August night skies PLANET Mars is big, bright and beautiful this month, days after the Red Planet came to its closest distance from Earth since 2003. Here are the most stunning pictures of Mars in the August night skies. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:Flu Patients Arrive in Droves, and a Hospital Rolls Out the ‘Surge Tent’Cellphones Are Still Safe for Humans, Researchers SayExxon Studies Climate Policies and Sees ‘Little Risk’ to Bottom LineCoronal hole opens up on the SUN: TECH BLACKOUT warning for February 4Trilobites: Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?Alien life which breathes CYANIDE? NASA Saturn discovery re-writes biology books