On August 5, Mars, Venus and Saturn will form a triangle at Night Sky

Are you among those who love to watch night sky ? Coming the first week of August and you will find Venus, Mars and Saturn in a triangle in the night sky.

You can easily locate Venus as it is bright and the other two planets will be close to it forming a triangle on August 5 .However, Mars and Saturn are not as bright as Venus. On July 31, you will find Mars just below Saturn.

People have always dreaded these planetary alignments as they found it bringing mis-fortune but there is no scientific evidence of this fear.

Graph to help you locate the planets on night sky on August 5.

Explore Mars from Earth

For everyone who want to explore Mars but scared of going there , you can have your dream realised by going to NASA's Be a Martian website.

The Be a Martian site is a collaboration between NASA and Microsoft that uses the tool of crowsourcing to sift through the hundreds of thousands of photos sent back by Mars rovers and orbiters. The format of the site is much like a game, where you complete tasks to earn points and badges.
There is a forum on the site where one can ask questions, vote on questions and make comments to earn "Curiousity Points". NASA Mars experts will read the questions to see what the virtual Martian community is interested, and will host town hall-type meetings in the future where members can participate.
For games and videos you need to have Microsoft’s Silverlight application to work for this site.

How to search for alien seas

The search for habitable planets around other stars has taken a step forward by, ironically, looking at our own planet. To test whether we would be able to detect oceans on exoplanets, researchers used the Deep Impact spacecraft to observe Earth, as if we were aliens looking at Earth with the tools we might have in ten years.

The Deep Impact spacecraft hit the headlines in July 2005 when it fired a copper projectile into the comet 9P/Tempel 1, creating a huge outburst on the comet’s icy surface. Since it still has fuel and power, astronomers have since been employing it in other jobs. For instance, at the beginning of this year it began using its cameras to search several stars for the telltale dips in light that indicate transiting planets.