{"id":4705,"date":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dominicans-prepare-to-view-mars\/"},"modified":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-08-26T01:43:56","slug":"dominicans-prepare-to-view-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/26\/dominicans-prepare-to-view-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans prepare to view Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sancocho and the cocido have been ordered as friends<br \/>\nprepare to view the spectacle of Mars coming closer to Earth than it has in<br \/>\n60,000 years. On 27 August, Mars is set to rise at about 9pm low in the<br \/>\nsoutheast, will be visible in the southern sky at around midnight and low in the<br \/>\nsouthwest sky before dawn. At 10:51pm, Mars will be a distance of 55.7 million<br \/>\nkm away, its closest proximity to Earth since the age of the caveman, or 57,617<br \/>\nBC. Of course, the view will depend on the weather clearing. Today Santo Domingo<br \/>\nis overcast, as a tropical wave moves west, but the forecast is for clearer<br \/>\nskies in time for the Mars viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sancocho and the cocido have been ordered as friends prepare to view the spectacle of Mars coming closer to Earth than it has in 60,000 years. On 27 August, Mars is set to rise at about 9pm low in the southeast, will be visible in the southern sky at around midnight and low in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/26\/dominicans-prepare-to-view-mars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}