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Amateur astronomers will be able to get a rare close-up of our dusty red neighbour in the night sky – as Mars will be the closest it has been to Earth in over a decade. The event, which will take place on Monday, occurs when the Red Planet's orbit reaches its closest point to Earth. At about 9.35pm, Mars will be 46,762,695 miles from us as it continues its 687-day elliptical orbit around the sun – the closest it has been since 2005. Ciaran O'Hare, a PhD student at the...