Was the Mars Hoax real or hoax? You decide.

Mars Exploration

Was the Mars Hoax real or hoax?
You decide.
by Kevin Martin
Ontario Weather Service

"The Mars Hoax. Truth? Or Hoax. We can think of it as a hoax all we want, but there is some truth to every hoax right? The Total Lunar Eclipse on August 28, 2007 rendered that hoax into a reality. The fact is, the Mars Hoax said that the Planet Mars would be as big as the Full Moon. Well? That isn't possible, but there was truth!

When the Total Lunar Eclipse happened this time, it was during the time the Mars Hoax date was to take place. The Moon this time was Mars. If you think about it, Mars is reddish. The Moon was also reddish in color, with a bright ice cap looking feature like Mars. This ice cap was not a true ice cap but it was the sunlight on the very edge of the Moon. Still with the reddish color and sunlight on the edge, the Moon fulfilled the Mars Hoax, and it is done with. The Mars Hoax had truth to it".

Mars image courtesy NASA, moon image courtesy Kevin Martin

Imagiverse Note: The Mars photo is courtesy NASA. The moon photo was taken by Kevin Martin as the moon came started to come out of the shadow of the earth in the early hours of August 28th, 2007. To all those people who keep sending the email about Mars being so close to Earth it looks as big as the moon... look closer... it WAS the moon! Mars, at its closest, looks much smaller... more like a large orange star.

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- 28 August 2007

Last Updated:
28 August 2007