The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Celebrates the Red Planet

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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina organized a scientific festival for celebrating the arrival of the planet Mars to the closest distance to Earth since 60,000 years. This celebration was an exceptional opportunity to astronomers, specialists and amateurs to monitor the planet Mars and clearly study the details of its surface. The Celebration began with a lecture entitled “an encounter with the Red Planet”. Ayman Ibrahim, the Researcher and Astronomer at the planetarium delivered the lecture, which incorporated a number of discoveries, facts, plans for sending astronomers, and establishing colonies on the planet Mars. The lecture was followed by the monitoring process, which devised 4 telescopes of different sizes. The Planetarium also displayed 3 free shows on the red planet and the other stars in space. More than 2000 participants who came to witness the phenomenon, which will not take place till 2287, attended the festival.


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